On 07/12/13 12:31, gnuser wrote: > You are relying on the work of a non free project, but you don't look > at that in the same light you do with Debian. I am not against > linux-libre, I am a supporter of such a project, but I am aware that > if Linux stopped being developed, Linux-libre would be doomed.
Trisquel is also in the same situation, being dependant on a non-free distro: Ubuntu. It's not ideal, but the developers of Trisquel have worked hard enough that we can create a free version of it. Having an upstream project that respects freedom is of course better, but sometimes not possible. Yeah, if Linux development stopped, at least it's free software. Maybe a bunch of GNU hackers would fork it then. But unless that ever happens forking would be counter-productive. > How can you use Linux-libre as an excuse to overlook all the work > Debian has put into Hurd and the kfreebsd kernels?? I don't think we are overlooking the fantastic work Debian developers does for the free software community. Some people (including myself) are criticising the Debian project for distributing, and in some cases, displaying proprietary software to the user. > So you believe one can be free without freedom of choice? Lol, that > would basically make you a slave of other people decisions regarding > free software. If the software is free then any community of developers can make their own decisions. Andrew.
