>We are not concerned about the price but rather we are concerned about >our freedoms to share change etc the source code to suit our needs. >Furthmore some of us are very paranoid. Also why can't u make a open >source bios? What are u hiding from us? Your NSA backdoor! That's a bit disingenuous to my mind. There may be people who are concerned with their freedoms that have a relationship with [FSF defined] Free Software, but the majority are happy enough to get software without cost (and even consider it without cost if an OS comes with the hardware), if my own experience is anything to go by. We have a community of users of [FSF] Free Software and I would like to say only that it is at this time when the western world's economic system is in meltdown that the community is concerned with price. From my experience, this is not only the case, and are not that interested in creating hardware that work with Free Software; in fact, from my observations that community is pretty well inactive in the area of new advances for free software. From my experience, they use Free Software because it is, well, free without putting anything back for the rest of the community. Of late, there have been serious issues of privacy and the State which the vast majority of Free Software users has not been actively involved, and not been raising issues about freedoms and rights. If the large mass of users had been involved, we could have achieved far, far more than we have both in the US and UK and other countries. The question is: how do we organise to make ourselves more effective and hasn't really been answered up to now? ++ Graham Todd Email created using gNewSense Linux 3.0 and hardened with Liberté Linux 2012.3. "Free Software, as free in free speech and freedom"
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