Comment 11 for bug 164819

Hallo, it's me again.

Eight months after I first registered this bug, I see the developers haven't even yet decided on the importance of it.

Well to put my half-pennies worth in, I think this is of fundamental importance.

Let's look at Stallmans four freedoms: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

and in particular Freedom Number One: "The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs (freedom 1)."

Adapting it to my needs, in this case, involves removing it from cleanly from my computer, which I can't do. Freedom involves having the software running on my computer, which *I* decide, not you , not Ubuntu and not the scrollkeeper developers.

I simply don't want something running on my computer which

"stores metadata specified by the http://www.ibiblio.org/osrt/omf/ (Open
Source Metadata Framework) as well as certain metadata extracted directly
from documents (such as the table of contents).

It provides various functionality pertaining to this metadata to help
browsers, such as sorting the registered documents or searching the
metadata for documents which satisfy a set of criteria."

@scrollkeeper_developers:

/tinfoilhaton

er ... that is *my* browser you're talking about there, isn't it? ... isn't it???

/tinfoilhatoff

OK, I´m not just trying to be funny here, I really am interested in finding out what the developers and other interested people think. To my mind, by Stallman's definition, Scrollkeeper is *not* Free Software.

In fact this philosophy seems to be running throughout Ubuntu and partially Debian and maybe other distributions too, it's not just scrollkeeper.