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Willing to Buy a High-End, Free-Software-Only Laptop?

By Mark Shuttleworth

“With projects like Gobuntu and gNewSense aiming to provide a
platform that is zealous about free software, the obvious question
is ‘where can I run it?’ And right now, as far as laptops go, there
are no good answers. Pretty much any laptop you can buy today needs
some sort of non-free bits to make the most of its hardware,
putting you in the tricky position of having to choose between
hardware usefulness and software freedom. And boy, do we know about
that choice in Ubuntu!

“There have been several threads about this, in comments on this
blog and also on comments to Bug #1…”

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