Defining Free Software Business

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

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   >    What do you think of the suggestion made to draw lines similar
   >    to those drawn by the Debian project: "free", "free but
   >    currently depends on non-free", "non-free".
   >
   > A bad idea, since just like Debian, you end up recommending and
   > condoning non-free software by recommending businesses that
   > perform unethical practises.

   I don't see how you make this connection. Why would a
   classification as I suggested necessarily "end up" as a
   recommendation?

Since these companies will be listed as GBN friendly companies (with a
little sign saying something about their "status"), you tell users
that these companies are OK.  When infact, they are not, since they
recommend/develop non-free software.  What is the point to classify
businesses that do something that is not acceptable?

Cheers (and bed time for me)