On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 19:42 -0700, Smartboy wrote: > So are we, as a team, going to criticize others of our team because > they are tied to one program? I thought freedom was not only freedom > in what you can choose on Linux, but freedom to use what you want. By > trying to force people to use only open source software, we are not > being free in all senses of the word like Ubuntu wants, and are > actually turning into want we are trying to fight against (if you > would call it that, which I wouldn't).
Freedom isn't furthered by supporting the use of chains. Cory's proposal doesn't equal forcing people to only use open-source software. Nobody is forced to contribute artwork. I don't remember reading that Ubuntu is about being free in all senses of the word (that would be chaos) but advocating the use of free software and bringing the benefits of software freedom to the people is among the top level goals. http://www.ubuntu.com/community/ubuntustory/philosophy Anyway, if we mandate the use of free software, an exception should be considered for tools with no free equivalent. I have Flash in mind. Although it seems no one in the community here uses it for Ubuntu, it would be a fine tool for prototyping interaction design and the oh so fashionable GUI animations. -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/ -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
