On Dec 15, 2007 3:37 PM, Mattieu Baptiste <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 14, 2007 9:49 PM, Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Could you tell me the name of that facility, or something else about > > it? If it is specifically and only useful for blobs, perhaps it > > should be remove from gNewSense. On the other hand, if it is a > > general purpose feature and blobs are merely one thing it could be > > used for, then I probably don't have anything against it. I don't > > criticize general facilities merely because someone could use them > > to do things with non-free software. > > For facilities, we can take the example of the prominence of binary-only > linux kernel modules. You're ok with the fact that they can be more than > easily installed by every dump people, you're ok by the fact that your > recommended distro provides facilities for installing these types of > blobs... but on the other side, just because OpenBSD, a full-featured, > *completely free* operating system, is transparent enough to show its users > what software (free or non free) they can install *separately*, you > criticize the project and you not recommend it.
You do realize he has been criticizing most linux distros for years, right? For exactly the same thing. -- http://www.glumbert.com/media/shift http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk "This officer's men seem to follow him merely out of idle curiosity." -- Sandhurst officer cadet evaluation. "Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks factory where smoking on the job is permitted." -- Gene Spafford learn french: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1G-3laJJP0&feature=related
