On Jun 16, 2008, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html > Certain forms of software being non modifiable is perfectly ok > according to FSF. Err... I'm sure there's some misunderstanding here somewhere. Where did you get that idea? Do you by any chance mistake 'non-functional data' (images, songs, etc) for software? > Fedora as a project has done more to promote free software than most > mainstream distributions. I think that's true, even though it has regressed in this regard in the past 2 or 3 releases. > We aren't perfect however and that is well known. We shouldn't claim otherwise, though, to avoid misguiding people and generating useless discussions between the well-known truth and claims that conflict with it, as much as we'd like the claims to be true and the well-known truth to be past mistakes long fixed. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
