Re: About merging the Hurd homepage and the Hurd wiki

[Marcus Brinkmann]

Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 01:59:28PM +0100, I wrote:
>> For example, we currently have instructions about (a) running the Hurd on
>> the non-free vmware,
>> <http://www.thomas.schwinge.homeip.net/hurd-wiki/hurd/running.html>.
> 
> I re-read the GNU guidelines.  In fact, as I read it, we're allowed to
> descibe how to get our (free) software running on non-free systems, as
> long as we also list and encourage free alternatives (as would be QEMU in
> this case), and don't promote the use of the non-free software.

VirtualBox may be a better replacement for vmware than qemu, and there is a
functional free version of it.

I wouldn't worry about scientific papers.

Thanks,
Marcus