[Arm-netbook] System 76 - Entering Phase 3

[John Luke Gibson]

Having less proprietary software, means less backdoors, less
surveillance, less knowledge barriers, less remote theft of computing
resources, etc. It's not perfect, but it's less of the disturbing
stuff.

On 4/21/17, John Luke Gibson <eaterjolly at gmail.com> wrote:
> Let's do bear in mind that they do have real reasons for keeping
> proprietary blobs in their systems. While these reasons do not measure
> to the ethical concerns, think about this in terms of a much more
> grossly obvious circumstance: if a barbarian kills two people in
> bandit raids everyday, and you convince that barbarian to kill one
> less person each day, then yes they are still killing, but you're not
> in the end compromising your principles by making the observation that
> the situation is better and are in no way contradicting those morals
> by praising the barbarian for being less murderous. Obviously this is
> a gross comparison but I think it demonstrates a universal principle
> very well.
>
> On 4/21/17, Stefan Monnier <monnier at iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>>> Compromise is a trap and why theres no libre wifi and gpus
>>
>> Lyberta talked about (and I responded about) "respect",
>> not "compromise" or even "collaborate".
>>
>>
>>         Stefan
>>
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