On 3/13/12, Matthias Kirschner mk@fsfe.org wrote:
Hi Antonio,
- Antonio Esposito kobe@member.fsf.org [2012-03-09 22:49:21 +0100]:
I noticed Garlach44 starts to preinstall Trisquel GNU/Linux in many of their computers. I think it's a wonderful news for Free Software community and movement. :)
http://www.garlach44.eu/en/ http://www.garlach44.eu/en/trisquel
Good news indeed. Thanks for letting me know. You might want to inform discussion@fsfeurope.org about that. Beside that we have https://wiki.fsfe.org/Hardware_vendors, where you might want to add it.
I already know the FSFE database and Garlach44 is inside.
The novelty is they are the first company (I know) in Europe that sell some computers with Trisquel preinstalled (a completely free distribution based on Ubuntu), so they're completely compatible with Free Software.
Most of the companies that sell computers with GNU/Linux and-or without windows preinstalled do NOT pose the problem that many of these computers require proprietary firmware (alias "binary bloobs") to run some important components, including wireless cards.
IMHO it's not wrong to propose and have a database lists who do not sell computers with Trisquel (or other free distribution) preinstalled, but it should keep in mind in order to create a constructive awareness that will lead other companies to make this choice, and then further improve the Free Software world.
In conclusion, a good idea might be to give priority to companies who preinstall Trisquel (as ThinkPenguin and Garlach44) and list the others in a second table explaining why they're in a different table.
My 2cent,