While I respect and admire Richard's 'purity' - I also want to be able to deal with the real world, so my computer does have non-free software installed on it where I don't think the free alternatives are as good...
Having a list / ranking / score system has a benefit - if for whatever reason one doesn't want to use the '100% perfect' repo, isn't it better to use one that is say '75% pure' vs one that is '0.0% pure'?? If so, how does one tell the 'not-quite, but almost acceptable' from the 'downright evil' repos???? It's the same problem I have with the RYF label - because you don't allow the label to be used on a product that also has a 'Works with <proprietary>' system label, you cut your own throats - like it or not that is a big set of users, and a manufacturer would be foolish to ignore a potential market segment. If I made a hardware product that ran on both, I wouldn't even think of applying for an RYF label because of that restriction. As a hardware consumer I am HURT, because in most cases I can't look at a product box and see a 'Runs on GNU/Linux' label next to the 'Runs on <other system>' label. The Free Software world is HURT because the proprietary system user never gets to see that he can use his hardware under GNU/Linux as well as the proprietary system.... ------------------ Arthur Torrey - <[email protected]> -------------------
