On 1/31/06, Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. >
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