Dear Mark, dear Ubuntu developers,
We the undersigned petition you to reconsider your decision of including binary drivers by default in the next Ubuntu release. We believe, as you do, that it should be as easy as possible for end users to enable extra functionality via closed software when necessary and if they so wish, but only after an explicit acknowledgment and only after being informed about the issues at stake and possible alternatives. Users can be given the option to install closed drivers/software during installation or soon after installation or when an application that may require such software is run for the first time. It is a small change, but one that will avoid dividing the community on an issue that many hold dear, without sacrificing ease of use and product appeal. We therefore encourage you to opt for easy-installation as opposed to pre-installation. Many thanks for your attention, 1. Agostino Russo 2. Onkar Shinde 3. BaishampayanGhose 4. Steven Dilworth 5. Florent Mertens 6. Slava Chemodanov 7. Dan Bishop 8. João Crespo - Why not let the problem of blobs installation up to the common customizations spec (a GUI somewhere at system » administration or something similar)? is the solution found to all the other non-free stuff instead of bundling with for default or asking the user during the install if he wants flash, codecs, etc.... 9. TobySmithe 10. Alon Zakai 11. Volker Löchte 12. Roy Schestowitz 13. Shane Coyle 14. Stian Rødven Eide 15. Mark Grandi - just make it so during installation, tells you about them, and asks you if you want them or not. 16. Mackenzie Morgan 17. Stuart McNeill 18. Dustin Widmann 19. Tareeq Ali 20. Andrew Poelstra 21. FirdausAziz 22. Matthew Flaschen 23. Terry Harrison 24. Ali Davoodifar 25. Albert van Aardt 26. Jeffrey Parke 27. Chris Warburton 28. David Nielsen - First it was wifi, then it was graphics. What freedom and supportability is going to fall at the hand of temporary highly limited functionality next? Instead of doing this we should fund and support work towards bridging the functionality gap with free drivers. 29. Lloyd Almeida 30. Guy Johnston - I only use GNU/Linux and other free software for the freedom it allows me. My next installation is likely to be gNewSense. If this increase in installing proprietary software by default continues, it definitely will be, and I won't use Ubuntu or any of its official variants again. 31. James Buchanan 32. Paulo Gomes 33. Matthias Lehr - via http://www.ubuntuusers.de/ikhaya/354/ 34. Lutz Reinhardt 35. Saul Goode - It is contrary to the philosophy espoused in http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/philosophy 36. Holger Bauer 37. Jan Rathmann 38. Gregor Geiermann 39. Tim Pretz 40. Frederik Tuczek 41. Norbert Fabritius 42. Anke Kernbach 43. Marc Hildebrandt 44. Alexander Menk 45. Marcus Fihlon 46. Maxim Lapis 47. Sebastian Kotowski 48. Xinchi Yu - via http://www.ubuntuusers.de/ikhaya/354/ 49. Michael Kehraus 50. Rüdiger Dick -Duisburger Linux User Group ( www.dulug.de ) 51. Amir Hadi 52. Chris Lees 53. Thorsten Tasch 54. Dimitri Vorona (aka Alendit) 55. Christian Schoch 56. Søren Schneider 57. Simon Schlosser 58. Matthias Mailänder - via http://www.ubuntuusers.de/ikhaya/354/ 59. Clemens Blank - via http://www.ubuntuusers.de/ikhaya/354/ 60. David Becher 61. Sven Jaborek, people who want blobby linux should go to novell 62. Andreas Gutowski - via http://www.ubuntuusers.de/ikhaya/354/ 63. Roberto Amato - via http://www.ubuntuusers.de/ikhaya/354/ 64. Simon Bürger 65. Bernhard Hanakam - via http://www.ubuntuusers.de/ikhaya/354/ - Please give the user the opportunity to choose, because this is what linux is. A GUI is IMHO a good solution, but the closed drivers should stay in restricted, not in the default installation. Mark and all the others: don't let ubuntu become some stuff like SuSE. Keep thinking of bug #1! 66. Ueli Zahnd 67. Andreas Schmauss 68. Richard Hirner - via http://www.ubuntuusers.de/ikhaya/354/ - I have installed and recommended Ubuntu Linux to many people, but I won't support another "Lindows" 69. Oliver Gellner 70. Martin Gräßlin - Why don't you try to persuade the companies to change their closed source drivers to open source? That would be the best for the users. 71. David Fu - maybe gNewSense does make sense after all. 72. Carsten Schmidt 73. AndreasGnau - The user has to be informed about both the advantages and disadvantages. 74. Marco Hunseler - Please, dont do that :-\ 75. Gaurav Mishra - this will forget the real ubuntu spirit and will be followed by the commercial market requirements , 76. Hendrik Thaer 77. Dieter Komendera - via http://www.ubuntuusers.de/ikhaya/354/ 78. Mitja Kleider 79. Matt Medland 80. IanDarwin - Every single time you install a binary blob driver, you convince some big company that "open source" just doesn't matter. Is that what you want to do? 81. Christian Wagner - via http://www.ubuntuusers.de/ikhaya/354/ 82. David Tangye - In addition I also support (see http://boycottnovell.com/category/ubuntu/ "12.23.06 Ubuntu No Blobs By Default Petition"): "put a button that sends an email to the detected hardware vendor complaining about this extra step. Then, vendors will see just how many customers it does affect and act; by Ubuntu doing it for the end user without interaction, there will be no market backlash or incentive to open up." 83. Frederik Elwert 84. Marian Sigler 85. Björn Kunze 86. Gustav Andréasson 87. Marcel Miebach 88. Jussi Kukkonen 89. Heinrich Franz 90. Simon Streit 91. Christian Niemeyer - via http://www.ubuntuusers.de/ikhaya/354/ 92. Ivan Jelic 93. Ivan Petrović 94. MilanPrvulovic 95. Frederick "FN" Noronha, Goa, India 96. Bartosz Bogacz - please don't forget that many of us are using linux because its open-source and not because its better or free 97. Tom H - I am in favour of a program installed by default which presents the user with information on binary blobs and asks whether he/she wishes to install them. 98. Matias Särs 99. Dustin Sandell - In favor of original install offering a choice about installing binary blobs once. (Not repeatedly.) 100. Sámal Rasmussen 101. Marko Herman 102. Nishant Sharma 103. KartikMistry 104. Aleksandar Negovanovic 105. Zoran Olujic 106. Nick Ferguson 107. MarkusMajer (mpathy) 108. David Brady - I use the binary drivers, but I do not think that they should be installed by default. 109. Christoph Domin - via http://forum.studium-bingen.de/viewtopic.php?t=64 110. Manuel Schindler - via http://forum.studium-bingen.de/viewtopic.php?t=64 111. TormodVolden - I have to use a binary GPU driver on my machine, but at least I am aware of it and I hope to get rid of it one day. http://wiki.ubuntu.com/NoBlobsByDefaultPetition -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
