"Alfred M. Szmidt" ams@gnu.org wrote:
Are you going to imply that if Microsoft publishes a copy of the GNU Manifesto, then the "FSFers" must have thought them worthy of assistance?
If done in the same way, with recommendation at the top of a page like http://www.fsfeurope.org/projects/bgw/bgw.en.html 'Started in January 1999, the Brave GNU World is a monthly column which has since then been released in nine languages[*] on the web and printed in the German "Linux-Magazin," the "Linux Magazine" U.K., "Microsoftware" (a large computer magazine in Korea) and the "Linux-Magazine" in France.' then I would, yes.
Where is this recommendation? I don't see anything remotley close to `Read Linux-Magazin!!!' or even `You can get a gratis copy of Linux-Magazin by doing foo'.
s/recommendation/linking/ and the point remains valid. http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/intro.en.html also says: "The release date is coordinated to appear simultaneously with Linux-Magazin." It's obvious there was assistance.
A wonderful, now you simply change your argumentation. There is a huge difference between linking to a site that happens to do something remotley related, and distributing, and supporting non-free software. Can you please show where the GNU project and/or the FSF recommends, supports and condones the usage of non-free software? You have up to this point not done so, only come with utterly vauge linkage to some magazine that is about GNU/Linux.
I have shown specific examples of where Debian supports and distributes non-free software, Sun Java. Please show where the FSF and/or GNU project do anything similar, or please stop your FSF/GNU hate rampage.