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From:	ANT_THOMAS	3 Feb 2017 11:43
To:	Peter (BOUGHTONP)	14 of 19

41880.14 In reply to 41880.13
That's a bit shit, freedom should include being able to install whatever you want without being restricted to what some group of people say you should/shouldn't. A

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From:	Peter (BOUGHTONP)	3 Feb 2017 12:51
To:	ANT_THOMAS	15 of 19

41880.15 In reply to 41880.14
Yep, goes against "The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose" and "The freedom to ... change it so it does your computing as you wish" No point arguing that though - they'd just say having the source code means you're free to modify it, (whilst insisting immediately that doing so would be the worst thing ever). `3.1415P265E589T932E846R64338`

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From:	ANT_THOMAS	3 Feb 2017 15:11
To:	Peter (BOUGHTONP)	16 of 19

41880.16 In reply to 41880.15
I had a very quick search to see what support that distro had for Intel WiFi (obviously little or none), and the first few forum posts were just people getting angry for others linking to non-free proprietary firmwares. At which point I thought, I'm not Richard Stallman so I really don't care. A

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From:	CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)	3 Feb 2017 16:11
To:	ANT_THOMAS	17 of 19

41880.17 In reply to 41880.16
Richard cares so you don't have to. “Why I threw swastika golf balls at Donald Trump”

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From:	ANT_THOMAS	3 Feb 2017 16:38
To:	CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)	18 of 19

41880.18 In reply to 41880.17
It's a massive weight off my penguin shoulders. A

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From:	Drew (X3N0PH0N)	3 Feb 2017 19:39
To:	Peter (BOUGHTONP)	19 of 19

41880.19 In reply to 41880.15
It's the nature of the beast though innit. If you want to be 100% certain that there's nothing proprietary on your machine, then Trisquel is the right choice. Which means for the vast majority of people in the vast majority of situations, it's a terrible choice. There are plenty of other distros (Debian's a good choice for a fairly hard-line but still sane approach to freeness). , , , , , , , , , , `' (o,o) (o,o) (o,o) (o,o) (o,o) \ \|)__) \|)__) \|)__) \|)__) \|)__) ''`>-,--”-”---”-”---”-”---”-”---”-”---- ,'.*''`

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