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Kevin Carmony Responds to Criticism
sharkscott writes to tell us that LXer's Don Parris took a few minutes to get Kevin Carmony's response to the large amount of criticism he has been taking over offering non-free software in Linspire. From the article: "Essentially, Carmony's position is that, in ten years of holding out, the FOSS community has made relatively few gains, in terms of convincing vendors to release libre codecs and drivers. In other words, the strategy doesn't seem to be working. Additionally, while some will be patient, most users would prefer to have something - anything - that works in the meanwhile."
Personally, I think Linux is already almost completely user friendly. Have you checked out the new Fedora Core 5 installation, or any installation using anaconda or something similar. I have to say setting it up was a breeze, and with tools like yum and guides like these (http://www.stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_insta llation_notes.html) I find it surprising that people find it difficult. Plus, I haven't tried it myself, but we've all heard of how great Ubuntu is. Linux has come a long way.
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You're missing the point. Free software people are interested in spreading Free Software. Why would they sacrifice the Free Software part of that, just to spread more proprietary software?