-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/05/2012 02:51 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote: > Actually, only Debian "main" is intended to be 100% dfsg-free > software. The entire composition of Debian "the system" is up to > individual users/developers/volunteers and how they choose to > compose their particular parts of the whole. Imposing a singular > objective on users'/developers' rights to make self-actualized > decisions on "their own system" is ultimately an inhibitor to > freedom, and well counter-productive to your own self-actualized > pursuit of your own vision of freedom.
Hucksterism. No one is telling users what to do, or imposing their "singular objectives" on anyone. The suggestion that barring Debian from the FSF's free distribution list is the same as telling users what to do is incredibly intellectually dishonest. Also, what you have said is a contradiction to what others have said about Debian. You say the system is heterogeneous with free and nonfree software that users may choose or refrain from choosing. Others have maintained that Debian is 100% free, and contrib/nonfree are not part of the system (as does Debian's documentation). Which is true? What I am talking about *is* what we are free to do. I am free not to use, distribute, or support nonfree software. FSF is free to make lists of the names of distributions that also do not distribute or support nonfree software. You are free to believe that going out of your way to do the work required to enable other people to choose nonfree software is respecting their freedoms, and exclude your work from FSF's list. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJQHeceAAoJEM5s7GXJ0FEIgvUIAJX8e7wW18PiXRYknZhRLnm2 Y8fT7bcpHiueDYLbsmp1nEXGvs+ZI52EcJTd0EdTnfxnfyLx1tJg38OUifymCrVj 2SLKTnRT5mL2mqm/CprPve4w2s5qcrJGXVlECaL+P+zLh505/ka7hwd0L6zupG/z 0x/QjnD9sIE8D7NWq/yPl/rKT2CiNTXsNdiZWcHd6ReJH7OqjvSJlxNXoN7+KNRa mifqww2tUz1pYAZxBIEbG8e+XLCe0EYCV4XuqVxgzvrYlKePgWCBmn3oj4MwVga/ R1bEYKD/JGsXlwwJ7e+z6kSxgyMVnYO3r26zDvYx3QWObr1GjXfDUVHSoyMiUBc= =y3dI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Fsf-collab-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/fsf-collab-discuss
