HOW-TO: Giving up Ubuntu

[Lee Braiden]

On Thursday 03 November 2005 19:51, Derek Broughton wrote:
> This is the problem.  We're not in a race.  We have no need for a large
> number of converts.

Agreed.  The Open Source movement is aiming for this, but I think it's a big 
mistake, watering down the point of Free Software.

> We don't need market share (in fact, free software, 
> under the existing definitions, _can't_ have market share - no matter how
> many Linux desktops we have, the 'market share' will be restricted to those
> that bought a commercial Linux variant).

Free Software is not the antithesis of commercial software.  There's no reason 
why everyone can't use Free Software.  The whole point of the movement is 
that everyone *should* have Free Software, as a matter of human rights.

But yes, that should happen when and if people fully understand what Free 
Software is about, and when and if they choose to embrace that for their own 
sake.

For those not entirely sure of what Free Software is and why it's different 
from Open Source, GNU.org has good explanations:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/

-- 
Lee Braiden
http://www.DigitalUnleashed.com