Re: [gNewSense-users] some ideas

[Dave Crossland]

On 06/11/06, jeff <address@hidden> wrote:
> Dave Crossland wrote:
> > "The unethical, unsustainable proprietary software in the list below
> > are often included in GNU+Linux distributions, including the ones that
> > have a reputation for only including free software like Ubuntu,
> > Fedora, openSUSE and Debian. gNewSense is proud to be truly 100% Free
> > Software!"
>
> Actually, what is in Fedora that isn't 100% Free Software?

I don't know, I never used it.

I just assume that this is the case because it is not listed on

http://www.gnu.org/links/links.html#FreeGNULinuxDistributions

and, if it was, why do gNewSense? :-)

> And I'm not looking
> for "I think they..." or "I heard they...", but someone who can say:
> "this
> particular binary file installed in this directory here in FC6 is
> non-Free". I
> think you may be spreading some (likely unintentional) FUD.

Apologies if this is the case.

> I'll also note that they compile their kernel with this, so they
> don't get blobs:
> CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD=y

Great :-)

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Regards,
Dave