"Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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/ _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
