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   翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 28-Apr-2025 01:08:39 JST 翠星石

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   @kev Fun alert; If you don't like what I point out, please prove me wrong (spoiler; I'm right).
   
   
   Since when they started to bundle a massive amount of proprietary software that takes the users freedom by default?; https://releases.ubuntu.com/24.04.2/ubuntu-24.04.2-desktop-amd64.list
   
   As you can see, the massive proprietary software collection of proprietary derivative works of Linux (with also a handful of free programs, with source code, under GPLv2-compatible terms) that is called "linux-firmware" is 344.9 MiB compressed; https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-firmware/20240318.git3b128b60-0ubuntu2
   
   There is also a lot of GPLv2-infringing proprietary malware from nvidia disguised as graphics drivers, for example, just *one* of the packages weighs at 291.7 MiB compressed; https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-550/550.120-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
   
   Also bundled is the proprietary intel sound card software collection, weighing at "only" 5.2MiB compressed; firmware-sof-signed_2023.12.1-1ubuntu1.4_all.deb (although it is probably source-available and partially under an "open source" development model, all non-SBC computers refuse to run the software unless it is signed with an intel signature, denying freedoms 0, 1 & rendering 3 moot; https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html#four-freedoms - therefore the software is rendered proprietary).
   
   Of course, bonus proprietary points from including GPLv2-incompatible Linux modules (zfs).
   
   
   I'm not interested in downloading 6GiB of iso to work out how many GiB of proprietary software there is, but you can see the size of (some of the) bundled proprietary malware from nvidia+broadcom with;
   7z x ubuntu.iso
   du -h pool/restricted/