One of the major advantages of free software is that the community
protects users from malicious software. Now Ubuntu GNU/Linux has become
a counterexample. What should we do?

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If you ever recommend or redistribute GNU/Linux, please remove Ubuntu
from the distros you recommend or redistribute. If its practice of
installing and recommending nonfree software didn't convince you to
stop, let this convince you. In your install fests, in your Software
Freedom Day events, in your FLISOL events, don't install or recommend
Ubuntu. Instead, tell people that Ubuntu is shunned for spying.

While you're at it, you can also tell them that Ubuntu contains nonfree
programs and suggests other nonfree programs. (See
http://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html.) That will counteract
the other form of negative influence that Ubuntu exerts in the free
software community: legitimizing nonfree software.

Copyright 2012 Richard Stallman
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