I know some people here in Brazil which are blindly advocating Debian as a free system distribution, and this freaks me out because gNewSense isn't getting the lead.
Some people here in Brazil advocate for gNewSense, and I support their advocacy. In both cases, one must understand that what you'll advocate depends on the expertise of the listeners (future users?), you can't simply tell people that come from Windows to use source based distributions like Ututo, as they'll have a hard time understanding it. However, making such ruinous compromise of recommending a non-free system distribution is almost unacceptable if it weren't due to the fact that Debian is (apparently) trying to comply with the GNU FSDG, but is still not something we could safely recommend to the general public. For the public interested in development, testing and such in-dept uses: perhaps. But not to the general public. There's going to be a talk advertising Debian as a 100% free system distribution in FISL (Forum Internacional do Software Livre) this year here in Brazil. And I will probably give up on going to all the editions of FISL until this and other issues aren't fixed and until the organizers don't start to follow the basic principles of administration/management: plan, organize, "direct" (sorry, my English skills fail me), and control. Right now, every single free software event here in Brazil seems to be accepting advertisements for non-free functional data or non-shareable non-functional data, for the sake of popularity, I guess. The only free software event that seems to have escaped from this madness is Software Freedom Day. All the others (FLISOL (Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre), GNUGRAF, Forum Espírito Livre, FISL, and so on) are biased.
