3rd Fellowship Raffle to attract more Fellows
MJ Ray
mjr at phonecoop.coop
Tue Mar 13 23:44:53 UTC 2007
"Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams at gnu.org> wrote:
> I also expect that FSF has often distribued machines to developers
> that currently require non-free software, in the hope that it helps
> to develop free software for them. [...]
>
> You expect, and guess, and assume quite alot about the GNU Project and
> the FSF.
I'm sure I've read it somewhere, but I can't find it on the new web
sites. The section "Donated computers" on
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/the-gnu-project.html suggests that it happened
even in that flagship FSF project at first. Why not in others?
I agree with the comment that it's evil even when justified, FWIW.
> Conversely, maybe it's time for those who want to work on replacing
> non-free software to join the debian project, who don't
> *distribute* non-free software but merely host it and are actively
> working to free or replace it.
>
> Debian clearly is not working to replace any of its non-free parts
> that are part of Debian.
The donors of scores of man-hours spent on it each week salute you(!)
> Debian still has a non-free Java system despite there being free ones.
Which of the java systems in debian (classpath, ecj, gcj, gij, jamvm,
kaffe, sablevm, maybe more) is non-free?
[...]
> If you want to support free software, support Gnewsense, or UTUTO-e.
gNewSense is a good choice too.
Regards,
--
MJ Ray - see/vidu http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html
Webmaster/web developer, statistician, sysadmin, online shop maker,
developer of koha, debian, gobo, gnustep, various mail and web s/w.
Workers co-op @ Weston-super-Mare, Somerset http://www.ttllp.co.uk/
More information about the Discussion
mailing list