Trisquel was not accepted as a FSF recommended distribution until two years ago and gNewSense was already recommended. Having a formal appearence by RMS is not the same as having him recommend it to other people. RMS talks with many people and has his photo taken with many people, but in 2005 RMS did not publicly recommend distributions to use.
Both Trisquel and gNewSense have a right as given by the licenses of the software to start their own product if they so wish. Canaima GNU/Linux has that right as well, but if the Venuzuelan government does not take its obligation to remove non-free software it will be business as usual. Canaima could derive from gNewSense or Trisquel so it has less work to do. So to answer your question on why was Trisquel not recommended by the gNewSense community, I think it is has something to do with this is the gNewSense mailing list and not the Trisquel mailing list. Welcome to gNewSense and pick up a copy! http://www.gnewsense.org/Main/Download -- Nic _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list gNewSense-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users