Re: [gNewSense-users] I decided to abandon gNewSense

[Sam Geeraerts]

Natousayni schreef:
> gNS is dificult, ok, but don't go so fast to windows
>
> install ubuntu, say yes to every restricted driver it 'll propose.
> open a terminal and type that:
> sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

Please don't suggest that people say yes to every piece of restricted 
software that gets proposed to them or recommend non-free software 
yourself. That is not the solution for their problems. Please read our 
community guidelines [1].

> and yourlinux willl do everything your windobe does, but faster and without
> security holes...

That's not very accurate. Every operating system has security problems. 
The problem is that you can not study and fix potential problems in 
non-free components of some operating systems (like Windows and Ubuntu). 
It doesn't serve our users to lure them in with false statements.

> then you might follow the evolution of Fsoft and gns, change to free
> alternative, one byte after the other...
>
> ok ubuntu is not free, but it's freer than Windows

I see what you're trying to do, but the message you actually send out 
is: "it's ok to use non-free software for now; once free software has 
caught up and there is no functional difference between free and 
non-free anymore, then you can switch back". This hollows out the ethics 
of software freedom and doesn't get us anywhere.

> have fun, keep the mojo !

Happy hacking. :)

[1] http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Main/CommunityGuidelines