Hi, Darac Marjal wrote: > I'm surprised that Grub (A GNU program) deigns to load Windows :)
If GNU can get people into using GNU software without giving up its core values, then it normally does. E.g. there is absolutely no ban on offering GNU software for proprietary OSes. The FSF does not force GNU programs to fully follow the political goals of FSF. The programs shall, however, not work against those goals. https://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html Distributing, advising, or easing installation of non-free software is considered to be against the goals. On the other hand if GNU was still waiting for The Hurd to become a usable kernel, then we all would sit at M$ PCs and iMac polycarbonate sculptures. So the FSF as a compromise promotes GNU/Linuxes which are a bit more dogmatic than Debian: https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.en.html The criticism against Debian is in https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.en.html Nevertheless there are several Debian people active in GNU packages. General reasoning for FSF positions is collected in https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html Have a nice day :) Thomas