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by pcx66 13y ago
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Although Ubuntu is a variant of the GNU operating system that I
launched (see http://www.gnu.org/gnu/the-gnu-project.html http://www.gnu.org/gnu/the-gnu-project.html), it has
major ethical flaws: it contains software that is not free/libre (see
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) and it spies on the user
(see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/ubuntu-spyware.html http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/ubuntu-spyware.html).
The Free Software Foundation challenged the developers of the Ubuntu
Edge to design it so that it would run without user-restricting
nonfree software, but they rejected that goal.
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
www.fsf.org www.gnu.org
- Zoepfli 13y agoThe Ubuntu spyware incident was exactly the reason why I didn't support this project.
- pessimizer 13y agoMe, too. I decided to wait until it came out, make an assessment on how much of it would be closed, and to what extent that could be worked around. If I could have trusted Ubuntu, I'd have been in for two or three.