On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 16:34:25 -0500 Nathanael Nerode wrote: > "olive" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I personnaly think that Debian would do better to defend free > > software if > there were in accordance to the FSF. > > I personally think that the FSF would do much, much better at > defending free software if they operated in accordance with Debian. > Debian-legal has proved better at guaranteeing the FSF's 'four > freedoms' in practice than RMS, what with the GFDL and all. > > Let's face it: the FSF didn't create a full free-software system. > Debian did. The FSF didn't even create the majority of the GNU > project tools. Volunteers did, and many of them *disagree* with the > FSF leadership. Discussions of the merits of FSF policy are > forbidden on FSF mailing lists, with the exception of a few which > appear to go to /dev/null. > > The FSF is, bizarrely, a top-down autocratic organization, with all > the flaws that implies. Debian isn't, with all the benefits and > flaws that implies.
Agreed entirely.
It's sad, but true...
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