Fwd: Most 'Free' Linux distro

Michael Kesper mkesper at fsfe.org
Tue Jul 29 12:21:24 UTC 2014


Hi all,

Am 29.07.2014 14:14, schrieb Garreau, Alexandre:
> Le 29/07/2014 à 13h31, Werner Koch a écrit :
>> On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 08:09, galex-713 at galex-713.eu said:
>>
>>> For exemple, a Debian *OS* is *by default* fully free, but Debian
>>> *project* (or at least people too close to it) often encourage you to
>>> install proprietary software, notably through nonfree repository, where
>>
>> Right, I am one of those who would encourage on pragmatic reasons to use
>> the non-free repository to install documentation for most GNU
>> software.
>
> Well, a repository for non-free documentation would be better, since
> documentation hasn’t to be as free as functional software (for reasons
> explained by FSF) and therefore doesn’t cause ethical problems, while
> proprietary software does.

I wonder whether anyone believes in this, sorry.

I omitted the GFDL sad story deliberately, though, because it's really 
just distracting.

Best wishes
Michael




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