Re: [LUG] getgnulinux.org

["Ben Goodger" <goodgerster@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/25/07, Matt Lee <mattl@xxxxxxx> wrote:

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.

BY GOD, FEDORA ALLOW OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE!
BLACKLIST!!

You know, the world doesn't revolve around the FSF's political agenda.
Indeed, nothing presents a poor image of the GNU/Linux community better than whiners like yourself.
Why do you think everyone avoids association with Stallman nowadays?

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.

Fedora is as free as it wants to get. If it doesn't want to be as free as you want it to be, that's too bad.

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