Re: [gNewSense-users] Is Fedora 100% free software? If so, how does it differ from gNewSense?

[jeff]

J.B. Nicholson-Owens wrote:
> jeff wrote:
> > You actually have to do the research though, not just speculate...
>
> I hope that you are not saying this antagonistically, are you?

No, not in any way at all. I just mean it more along the lines of people always 
saying that it's non-free ala ubuntu or SUSE or something, when they actually 
really are putting together a damn free distro. The only exception here appears 
to be blobs in the source code of the kernel they are distributing (from what 
I've been able to surmise).

> If Fedora wants to convince people that software freedom is their main 
> pursuit, then Fedora should say as much by name rather than promote the 
> more permissive open source philosophy (which they apparently are happy 
> to name by name).  I see this as a difference between gNewSense and Fedora.

Yes, the language details aren't lost on me. They do use "Open Source" quite a 
bit, but "FOSS" is used as well. Anyway, I'm not here to promote fedora. The 
thread just got started because fedora was lumped in with ubuntu as a non-free 
distro... :)

-Jeff