El 01/08/12 18:59, Thomas Harding escribió:
On 02/08/2012 01:56, Thomas Harding wrote:
On 02/08/2012 00:12, Quiliro Ordóñez wrote:
I can't bear this flamewar FSF vs Debian
It is not a flamewar....at least from my part. I am not an FSF
member either.
Perhaps my words would be more clearly understandable as:
"...Debian does not have an FSF compilant policy for freedom yet."
(sorry for dual post, and my bad English)
I has been excessive in my response,
What I disagree on is fact "Debian main" is not enlisted as
FSF-compliant because of /alternatives repositories of Debian who are
contrib and non-free/.
And about Linux kernel blobs, they has been dropped out from main for
a long now, and this has been largely discussed into Debian because of
peculiarity (they are loaded into the hardware and not directly used
by kernel), but finally they did the right, drop them from main !
And about install, loading them is let on user decision, with
convenient warnings...
While some enlisted distros finally offers non-free repos too, the
only difference is : it is not /as easy as/ Debian to use non free
software with these distro. But finnally, *you can*.
neither OSI or "Open Source" terms are used in the core Debian terms,
but effectively "Free Software"
<http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html#guidelines>
<http://people.debian.org/~bap/dfsg-faq.html>
(OSI is ~ a Debian consequence, not part)
Thank you for your comments Thomas.
Perhaps a separate page describing the position of Debian and why it is
not convenient from the position of the FSF is in order for this topic.
The Manchester FAQ page or any other page on Libre Planet is not the
place to promote the position of Debian according to the LibrePlanet
code of conduct unless it changes.
I think your other comments (which I didn't cite here) are very valuable
and I consider that each topic you cover should be placed in a separate
wiki page to allow for the collaboration of ideas from others. Your
ideas prove to be good seeds to make great initiatives follow and grow.
This thread is not a fertile place to make that happen and will deviate
discussion from the topic of this thread. Please consider that.
Greetings,
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