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On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 10:13:55 +0100, Dan MacDonald

wrote:
> [snip]

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> you are free to use Ubuntu, Red Hat or another

> distro that is more open to non-free or coryright software.

And we are free to compile software ourself.
> It's Debian's social contract that also stops stuff like the Amazon

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> spyware

> making its way into the Debian repos along with the fact its not run by a

> corporation which definitely makes if different from Ubuntu and even more

> so the Apple and Google app stores.

For me one good reason to think about switching back from Ubuntu to

Debian, but I still wait, to see which distro will solve some upstream

issues. At the moment a lot of software I used for years is completely

broken for Ubuntu. Perhaps I'll use Arch with systemd in the future, I

dropped Arch when it stopped beeing a rolling release, IOW when they

switched to systemd.
> There are web pages dedicated to the underhand, often criminal tactics

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> that

> have been employed by MS and Apple over the decades yet I know of no such

> list of nasties for Debian or any other community distro other than the

> usual whines of disgruntled users which you get with any OS. Some of you

> may not like Debian but they are certainly not in the same league as MS

> for

> nastiness by any stretch of the imagination

Ubuntu seems to do a step into this direction, OTOH since I won the iPad2

I experienced infamies that are completely no gos. I don't know current

Windows, but at least old Microsoft wasn't that evil as Apple is. I never

ever would buy something from Apple, btw. I don't buy, but anyway got

issues with this evil click and buy crime and to use the iPad users are

forced to register with a valid plastics. +1000000000 for all free OS. If

people wish to register as e.g. a Linux user, they are free to do it

without a plastics and I'm free to completely not register.
No, I'm not migrating to FreeBSD ;), but if something should be fishy with

Linux, in my case it's a RME cards that isn't good enough supported for

Linux, we still can try other *NIX. We not only have the freedom to switch

distros or to switch to other *NIX that are close to Linux, we also could

maintain or at least help to maintain packages. The non-free software

issue IMO isn't a real problem, because we easily can add repositories.

Switching for audio work to another *NIX might be not the smartest idea,

but switching the distro is easy to do, as long as the Linux user doesn't

place value on hype, IOW "distro A is better as distro B and this will be

valid for ever and if distro A should ever become less good, than all

other distros must become more less good". We are not married with a

distro and are allowed to have fun with every distro ;).
Regards,

Ralf
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FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE amd64

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