> On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:05:01 +0000 > Eric Morey <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I found this post and comments on Vrms to interesting: > > http://blog.nizarus.org/2009/09/are-you-a-100-free-user > > > > Eric...
This has been beaten to death, but vrms is really not a good example of what is free on your system... For instance, one of my Ubuntu machines: > Non-free packages installed on stormbringer > > autoconf-doc automatic configure script builder documentation ^^ GFDL > ebook-dev-alp [EBOOK-DEV] Advanced Linux Programming ^^ FSF approved free license > linux-generic Complete Generic Linux kernel > linux-restricted-modules- Non-free Linux 2.6.28 modules helper script > linux-restricted-modules- Restricted Linux modules for generic kernels > make-doc Documentation for the GNU version of the "make" > utilit ^^GFDL > manpages-posix Manual pages about using POSIX system > manpages-posix-dev Manual pages about using a POSIX system for > developmen ^^Don't know the license, but not even software > mit-scheme-doc MIT/GNU Scheme documentation ^^GFDL > mpi-specs [EBOOK-DEV] MPI 1.1 and 2.0 Specifications of MPI > Foru ^^Also not software > nvidia-173-modaliases Modaliases for the NVIDIA binary X.Org driver > nvidia-180-kernel-source NVIDIA binary kernel module source > nvidia-180-libvdpau Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix > nvidia-180-modaliases Modaliases for the NVIDIA binary X.Org driver > nvidia-71-modaliases Modaliases for the NVIDIA binary X.Org driver > nvidia-96-modaliases Modaliases for the NVIDIA binary X.Org driver > nvidia-glx-180 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver > ocaml-book-en English book: "Developing applications with > Objective > ocaml-doc Documentation for Objective Caml and Camlp4 ^^ Also not software, arguably free license > rutebook Linux: Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition, an > online ^^ Arguably non-free documentation license, but not software > tangerine-icon-theme Tangerine Icon theme ^^ CC-BY-SA I'm fairly sure > unrar Unarchiver for .rar files (non-free version) > Reason: Modifications problematic > > Contrib packages installed on stormbringer > > b43-fwcutter Utility for extracting Broadcom 43xx firmware > jde JDEE, Java Development Environment for Emacs(en) ^^GPLv2 (???) > nvidia-common Find obsolete NVIDIA drivers > nvidia-settings Tool of configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver > > 22 non-free packages, 1.0% of 2175 installed packages. > 4 contrib packages, 0.2% of 2175 installed packages. RMS would certainly not agree with (much of) this output.
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