Hal Vaughan wrote:
On Friday 04 April 2008, Michael C wrote:Ivan Savcic wrote:On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:I have a problem with this. Debian, in it's default install is almost assuredly GNU free. And it has the additional freedom of allowing the user to choose to use non-free software within the structure of it's packaging system. IMO that is more free than preventing people from using the software they want.I had exactly the same view on that. But RMS is obviously a purist, he dreams to banish all closed source from this world. Like Hal pointed out, RMS believes that there should be no freedom when it comes to choosing freedom itself. IvanRMS is more of a hypocrite than anything else. He morally objects to distros/*BSD variants with non-free applications in their repositories/ports systems, on the grounds that this implicitly advocates the use of non-free software, whilst explicitly advocating GPL-licensed software for use in conjunction with that ultimate proprietary platform, MS Windows: http://www.gnu.org/software/for-windows.htmlI think what RMS objects to is anything that was not his idea first. Hal
Honi soit qui mal y pense!The FSF's list curiously doesn't mention the GNU Foundation's support for the Win32 port of emacs and gcc: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html