On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 03:38:33PM -0500, Shaya Potter wrote: > I don't doubt you, as in a perfect world I would agree. But perhaps I'm > cynicall, as the FSF always wants Linux and GNU mentioned together, but > to me Linux is not necc a "free system" i.e. RedHat distributes software > that the FSF probably doesn't consider free (pine), but would the FSF be > happy or unhappy if they called it RedHat GNU/Linux? my understanding > is that they would be happy, perhaps I'm mistaken. >
Well, in this case you can ignore the non-free components and still have a running, useful system. It seems that this is the difference. BTW, the FSF will never endorse or recommend a system that contains non-free components (like, as you say, most distributions of GNU/Linux). Including Debian (as the FSF definition is more strict than the DFSG). Thanks, Marcus
