You have a slight point here. However we have NOT changed the position that
we held before. Promoting non-free software (linking to it) is bad. I'm not
going to say it is good. We're not perfect.
We're working to fix a number of issues like this ourselves. Our site has a
section that includes a few pieces of non-free software. Originally we made
people aware the software was non-free. However RMS pointed out the problem
with that to me and while we have not fixed it yet we did point to the FSF
directory for users of completely libre distributions.
When/if we implement this section in our next upgrade we won't include
programs that are non-free on the main site.
When users visit libre.thinkpenguin.com they are not shown compatibility
information with distributions containing non-free software. We also don't
exclude Trisquel from the main site, nor do we exclude it from the
linuxmint.thinkpenguin.com site.
This is not a two way street here. We have also changed some things about the
main site. We no longer use Ubuntu case badges on the computer systems. We
now show powered by GNU/Linux instead.
It's utterly absurd to say these things. Even the FSF's web site is not
perfect. There are issues and we need to encourage people / organizations /
companies to fix the problems rather than blast them for things that may or
may not be issues.
If I have anything to say about it we will removed all distributions with
non-free software some day. Simply excluding them and never working with
these distributions though is not the solution.
Like the work the free software organizers are doing with Debian it's a
process. Your not going to recommend Debian today although you are still
going to work with them and try to improve the free software situation for
tomorrow. This is similar to our situation. We have libre.thinkpenguin.com
just so that people do not have to recommend non-free software.
If I didn't care about Trisquel or free software there would be no support.
Trisquel is a tiny distribution compared to Linux Mint and hundreds of
others. It's not logical (from a business perspective) that I spent the time
to work on free software when there are other distributions that would bring
in more money for us.
It was not a practical decision. It was an ethical one.
I'm a big believer that we should make it easier to switch to free software
and that won't happen if we ignore those who are using it today.
