On Nov 8, 2009, Nick <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, there are certainly people who want to run distros whose > package management systems make installing non-free software > convenient, but who choose not to exercise that option.
Sure, that's why we choose to offer and encourage others to offer Linux-libre packages even for non-Free distros. But while on the one hand we don't mind that people use such distros if they're careful to not give up their freedoms or encourage others to do so, on the other we don't want to steer others towards these distros ourselves, for this may lead people who don't know better to make mistakes. I see the two issues as orthogonal, and the arguments you presented here are pretty much all related with the “using”, rather than with the “promoting”, which is the relevant issue to decide whether or not to name the distros. > I'd really appreciate it if you called the distributions by their > preferred names Now here's a twist: if you replace something as fundamental as the kernel in a distro, is it still the same distro? I've often considered that it isn't any more, which is why I didn't consider myself to run a certain non-Free distro, but rather Freed-ora. That was before I switched to the Lemote Yeeloong, on which I run gNewSense, with plans to also try Amagi and UTUTO XS. Likewise Freed-ebian, Huru-buntu, etc. This helps highlight that the original distro is not Free, but with names that are still hopefully recognizable by those who know what they're looking for. Now, it may be that Genfree is not as good or clear a pun as the others, so the reference is not as self-evident. Any ideas on how to fix that? -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter http://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin America board member Free Software Evangelist Red Hat Brazil Compiler Engineer _______________________________________________ linux-libre mailing list [email protected] http://www.fsfla.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-libre
