Comment by meruru
7 years ago
It solves bug #1
This bug is widely evident in the PC industry.
Steps to repeat:
1. Visit a local PC store.
2. Attempt to buy a machine without any proprietary software.
What happens:
Almost always, a majority of PCs for sale have Microsoft Windows pre-installed. In the rare cases that they come with a GNU/Linux operating system or no operating system at all, the drivers and BIOS may be proprietary.
> It solves bug #1
It doesn't do so anymore than ubuntu already does.
It does so more directly by being a PC without Microsoft Windows pre-installed or proprietary BIOS.
Almost always, a majority of PCs for sale have Microsoft Windows pre-installed. In the rare cases that they come with a GNU/Linux operating system or no operating system at all, the drivers and BIOS may be proprietary.
Ubuntu helped enable Purism to exist and they are great for that too.
> It does so more directly by being a PC without Microsoft Windows pre-installed or proprietary BIOS.
Ah, so it does so by redefining the inconvenient bits completely out of bug #1.
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