31 May
2017
31 May
'17
5:15 a.m.
ron: what you're about to attempt is called "coercion". it's unethical. the principles behind the libre concept are that ethics come first: very few people in the libre world actually truly understand that, because they think it's about the technology or about the "four freedoms" as specifically defined and laid out.
people need to be free to make their own choices. firefly (Acer) have made their choice - as they are entirely at liberty to do - to release the full source code of the SOFTWARE and NOT the hardware.
if you attempt to coerce them into doing something that they have not themselves chosen to do, they will not react as you intend, i guarantee it.
so please don't do it: it's unethical.
l.