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It's not sinking like the Titanic. The Titanic sunk spectacularly. This is just kind of disappearing from our consciousness.

Honestly, this game probably needs a different kind of aiming to work very well, probably pointing the nub in the direction you want to shoot. The mouse aim is cruddy on Abuse, and while I haven't played this, I'm sure it must be just as bad.

The restaurant analogy is flawed, mostly because a restaurant is not something you own. A computer is. If we want to try to use food as analogy, it would be your own kitchen, i.e. this is like refusing to have meat in your refrigerator. But that analogy breaks down because you don't need to have...

The point is to prevent accidental installation of nonfree software, and to allow you to be able to fully trust the system.

Well, the software you develop is perfectly legitimate for your company. It is only illegitimate from the perspective of clients who get the program without the four freedoms, and this action from your company is immoral.

Not showing nonfree software in a program like PNDManager doesn't prevent you from going to repo.openpandora.org and downloading it, the same way that Trisquel not putting Oracle's Java in its repo doesn't prevent you from downloading it from Oracle's website.

So, your company is the only one that runs the program? Why did you tell me it's proprietary, then? The only user of it has the four freedoms.

It's not coercion. Coercion would be locking down the hardware so only one OS can run on it. It's refusal to recommend or help with the installation of nonfree software.

So, you develop software for one client, and they allow you to keep the source code and rights to yourself? What will they do if your company goes under?

Sensitive client information? You store information about your users in the source code? Of course, if you're telling the truth about your software being proprietary, you should have thousands or at least hundreds of different users of your program, because otherwise it isn't very successful...

I didn't make up the requirement. I can't find it now (I'll look again when I'm on a proper PC rather than the Pandora), but there is a page or FAQ entry or paragraph somewhere on gnu.org explaining why distros must not show or suggest nonfree programs, ever.

If the software you participate in developing is proprietary, yes, that software is illegitimate in my view, whether it's Windows, Microsoft Office, Diablo, or any other nonfree program.

An option works fine if you understand the issue of software freedom. But many people don't understand the issues, so they can (and will) install nonfree software simply because they don't know better. So this is really about whether or not a system can be recommended. Another factor is if I...

That solution wouldn't work for me. I consider nonfree software to be illegitimate. Giving "open source" some extra money from the community would still convey that "closed source" software is legitimate. There's also what _wb_ said: it seems like you're passing open source to the community...

Exophase hit the nail on the head. EDIT: That sounds cool, Notaz. If that removes all nonfree software (I assume so), all that's needed is a modified version of PNDManager that only shows free software (and should also hide certain free packages, esp. PNDStore and PNDManager, that suggest...

Like _wb_ said, the nubs are fine. The firmware is isolated to the nubs and never changes, so it might as well be a circuit.

Yes, it would. Also, either modify PNDStore the same way or don't include it. That's one of the options I mentioned, though you explained it differently. :) Come to think of it, such a modification wouldn't be too difficult if various forms of common free software licenses were searched for...

It's not a boycott. I don't want to be a part of such a competition because it has been made clear that nonfree software is appreciated, and I don't want any part in that. Think of it this way: if there's meat in some of the things at a cooking competition, this isn't going to stop a vegan...

Hi, Although the systems available on the OS are mostly free software, some nonfree software exists. There is nonfree firmware for the WiFi and GPU, and a nonfree driver for the GPU. Although this probably does not bother many people, it does bother me. In addition, the default OS offers...

The code tags mess up spacing here for some reason, unless this has changed.