Comment 1855 for bug 1

My thoughts:

1) On perseverance: Giving up is not an option. "Can't Fix" admits defeat.

2) On pragmatism: We might need to temporarily accept a binary blob (or
three) or even a proprietary service along the road to Freedomville.
When we do, we've introduced a bug to be fixed later. (It's a bit like
taking shortcuts in programming. Sometimes we do that to get the result
faster, knowing that there's debt to be repaid down the road.)

3) On timeline: Ubuntu will outlive all of us. "Ubuntu is not just
software." When making plans we should consider a planning horizon of at
least 20 years.

4) On history: Just because others have failed to implement a business
model that maintains independence from capital markets, and respects,
spreads and preserves freedom, we should not assume that is the 100%
probable case. History is not always a good predictor of the future and
swans are sometimes black.

Cheers,
Randall.
Ubuntu Evangelists Team.

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