On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Aymeric Mansoux <[email protected]>wrote:
> Rob Myers said : > > On 09/23/2010 10:52 PM, Bernardo Barros wrote: > > >And it is one of the free distros. > > >http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html > > >Any chance of this happens for pure:dyne 10.06 ? > > >yeah, I know there is an issue with java and processing, but that's all? > > > > http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html > > Sadly, following this guideline I cannot see how Puredyne could get > listed. > > Of course: > > We do not ship Flash. > We do not ship Nvidia or fglrx proprietary drivers. > > But all this can be installed manually though via apt-get, aptitude, and > has been discussed in the past in this list or wiki(s), which is not > allowed: > > "What would be unacceptable is for the documentation to give people > instructions for installing a nonfree program on the system, or mention > conveniences they might gain by doing so." > > Just a couple of uneducated cents -- If Stallman's idea (dogma?) about free software is so restrictive, then is his imprimatur actually worth anything at all? It seems to me this sort of requirement accomplishes little except make a system less usable (or, less widely usable) and harder to find information about how to make it usable, and as far as I can see, the benefit of this is the self-satisfaction of ideological purity. Waste of time IMO. James -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world [email protected] http://www.dewdrop-world.net "Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, Sing me the universal." -- Whitman blog: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/words audio clips: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/audio more audio: http://soundcloud.com/dewdrop_world/tracks
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