Chris from Think Penguin LAS interview in case you missed it

This was only a small part of the interview. Unfortunately the choice of words in the beginning was poor, but it wouldn't have been so bad had they actually kept the part where I went into what free software was and how Linux Mint, Ubuntu, etc were not totally free.

I was very conscious of my initial wording, but on the spot interviews can be challenging. Particularly when your trying to communicate both freedom and compatibility at the same time.

Essentially the reason I included Linux Mint was I wanted to make clear we're not solely compatible with 100% free software distributions and that you don't have to use a 100% free distribution to gain some of the advantages of 100% free software friendly hardware.

What we don't want is people buying hardware dependent on non-free components. That would just increase the amount of non-free software actively being used as well as make it more difficult to move away from distributions with lots of non-free software.

In any event I think it could have been much worse. Overall I think it came out better than I expected. It also probably didn't help that System76 sponsors the show (or did). I think I made a distinction between us, System76, Dell, and other companies in the space. That might have been why they cut out the rest of the interview.

One last thing. Notice the FSF shirt :)

So, that is why I found it strange; they have cutted the interview.

I think the other companies do not find funny what smaller competitors are doing to counter-attack their deceitful behavior (generalization).

you where great on that interview Chris.

Thank you for your consideration t3g.

PD: I've noticed your FSF shirt Chris :).

Posted it to the ThinkPenguin blog:

http://thinkpenguin.com/blog