On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Jun 18, 2008, max <maximilianbianco@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> Yes. Which is why we should stop supporting these "PCs" which aren't >>> completely free. > >> I'm all for it too but first you have to get completely free options >> on the market place. > > Why does it have to be 'first'? Why can't we build up pressure such > that vendors will have more of a reason to do it? > Vendors are motivated by money, nothing more nothing less if you show them they can save money *and* not lose clients they will go for it. Inertia drives this market, the train is coming to a halt but it takes time to stop it and then of course you have to change direction. There is also the fact that most people don't know enough about the subject to care so if you don't put it front of them and maintain the price point they are used too then it is going to be especially difficult. These things take time, things are starting to change, I'd like everyone to suddenly wake up to what's going on around them too. > -- > Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ > Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} > FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/ > Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} > -- If opinions were really like assholes we'd each have just one -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
