On Friday 04 April 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 10:04:46AM +0200, Ivan Savcic wrote: > > AFAIK, RMS considers only one distribution to be really and truly > > free -- it's the Gentoo based Ututo[1]. He talked about this in his > > talk he held in Belgrade, Serbia. > > 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. > > .02
Another interesting note, from the same RMS talk. Someone pointed out that people had the freedom to choose so they should be able to choose non-free if they want. His response? A person never has the choice to be a slave. Hal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
