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Jonathan Roberts wrote: > Matt: I do agree with a lot of the Free Software foundation's ideas > but the distributions they promote seems a bit suspect to me; > certainly the fact that they're not promoting Fedora yet they are > gNewSense. From following the Fedora project it seems they are making > concerted efforts to be Free, as is gNewSense - neither distribution > is yet completely free from proprietary applications as I understand > it. As I understand, Fedora are still shipping binary firmwares, but are actively working on removing this, they also have some policies which allow any OSI-licensed software into their distribution, including some licenses considered to be non-free, but as I understand it, this too is being worked on. Nothing would make me happier right now than to see Fedora come out as a free distribution. It would give us a mainstream distribution to recommend to people. Plus, you know... http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/the-redhat-package-mangler matt -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html