There are (and always have been) "ifs, ands, or and buts" when talking about
free software. For instance, I believe that most of us consider positive:
To use proprietary software for the goal of developing free software (rms
himself was using Unix to replace its components);
To let proprietary software developers use some free software libraries if,
otherwise, they would simply use an equivalent proprietary library, hence not
help the free library improve (that is what the GNU LGPL is all about);
To port free software to proprietary operating system such as Windows, hence
helping the users of this subjugating system make the switch after tasting
freedom (Emacs, for instance, is available on DOS, Windows, Mac OS X,
proprietary Unices, etc.);
...
As I explained earlier, I think that proposing not only Trisquel but other
GNU/Linux distributions on freedom-friendly hardware is positive in a similar
way as the examples above. It is *helping* our cause.
