It is not freedom if you limited yourself to the tools available as an open source. The fact is that on Mac/PC you gain access to much more possibilites - the ones available on Linux as well as additional plethora of applications (if it's worth the price why not to pay for software?). No doubt the Linux is greate as a server but it is not major desktop platform.
If you talk of Freedom for the individual right now, then you are right. But we also want freedom for the user, her friends, her family, her community, her society for now and forever in the future. And here is where you are wrong.
You can use proprietary tools, but every time you turn your back on freedom, you hurt the ability for society to work it's way out of a deep hole. We need Freedom to own and control our computers because it's important, not just because it's convenient.
Sure, a user can make the choice to use Windows and Mac, but doing so hurts us all. More than most users know. We MUST work together to free ourselves and bring all the plethora of applications from Windows and Mac to Linux. I'm pleased to say that the majority of every computer use can be done using Ubuntu and only very rare corner cases would a use HAVE to use Windows.
Ubuntu is powerful, we need users to help make us even more powerful so we can deliver Freedom as well as Convenience to everyone.
You can use proprietary tools, but every time you turn your back on freedom, you hurt the ability for society to work it's way out of a deep hole. We need Freedom to own and control our computers because it's important, not just because it's convenient.
Sure, a user can make the choice to use Windows and Mac, but doing so hurts us all. More than most users know. We MUST work together to free ourselves and bring all the plethora of applications from Windows and Mac to Linux. I'm pleased to say that the majority of every computer use can be done using Ubuntu and only very rare corner cases would a use HAVE to use Windows.
Ubuntu is powerful, we need users to help make us even more powerful so we can deliver Freedom as well as Convenience to everyone.