Freespire: A Linux Distro For When You Couldn't Care Less About Freedom
Here's something nauseating. Linspire has announced at the 4th Annual Desktop Linux Summit their latest "We'd like to make money from the community's free stuff without honoring community values" strategy. They hope you'll help them compromise by contributing to Freespire, which the article describes as a "community-driven distro" that includes proprietary software. Um...what community is that? More mangling of the language to pervert and confuse -- Free Software isn't about proprietary drivers, bub. Here's how they try to inspire you to sell out, from the Freespire website:
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Ah, the mermaid's beguiling melody. "Think only about yourself. Think about all the fun you can have if you compromise. Think about convenience, not freedom, not ethics, not your neighbor. Don't think about the consequences."
You can be free by giving up your freedom. Right.
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