On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 1:57 AM, Michel Salim <michel.sylvan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I was just over at gnu.org to download the anniversary video recorded > by Stephen Fry, and while I was there decided to take a look at what > systems they recommend as being free. > > They list BLAG, which is based on Fedora. But Fedora itself (and > Debian) is not there! > > http://www.gnu.org/links/links.html#FreeGNULinuxDistributions > > This struck me as rather strange, especially considering their > guidelines are actually based on Fedora's (and we are thanked for it): > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html > > As far as I remember, Rahul Sundaram was talking to the GNU / FSF > people about this quite a while back. Is it just the difference over > binary-only firmware that's consigning us to the "non-free" heap? > > Regards, > > -- > Michel Salim > http://hircus.jaiku.com/ I asked a similar question[1] in July, the basic idea I got from it was that binary firmware is unGNU. [1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-list/2008-July/msg01481.html -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
