What I recently did regarding software freedom.

[Rui Miguel Seabra]

On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 10:13 -0500, Don Levey wrote:
> But you're not telling people to "adopt" non-free software.  You'd be
> helping people to get what they already have to work with free software.
> Sometimes that may require some non-free parts.

This is incoherent.

>   That's life.  The
> alternative is to say "tough luck, folks - the hardware you have won't work
> in this pure and unsullied environment, so your hardware must go."

When a friend has made a bad buy, why won't you advise him to make a
better buy? I've been told that at least in the US it's quite easy to
return the card, and a perfectly reasonable reason is that there's no
support for Free Software from that vendor and that you weren't
knowledgeable of that in the first place.

Rui

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