[pcx66]

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Comment quoted here for ease:

Although Ubuntu is a variant of the GNU operating system that I launched (see http://www.gnu.org/gnu/the-gnu-project.html), it has major ethical flaws: it contains software that is not free/libre (see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) and it spies on the user (see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/ubuntu-spyware.html).

The Free Software Foundation challenged the developers of the Ubuntu Edge to design it so that it would run without user-restricting nonfree software, but they rejected that goal.

Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation www.fsf.org www.gnu.org

[Zoepfli]

The Ubuntu spyware incident was exactly the reason why I didn't support this project.

[pessimizer]

Me, too. I decided to wait until it came out, make an assessment on how much of it would be closed, and to what extent that could be worked around. If I could have trusted Ubuntu, I'd have been in for two or three.