On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 21:59:46 -0500 Quiliro Ordóñez <quil...@congresolibre.org> wrote:
> >> At http://www.fsf.org/working-together/gang/ the FSF even endorses > >> FreeBSD, which is known to have proprietary software in their ports. > >> (personally I think, FreeBSD shouldn't be listed there. If they must > >> list a BSD system it should be OpenBSD, which has, in contrast to > >> FreeBSD, an explicit free software agenda). > >> > > > > I don't see FreeBSD as an endorsed free OS. Will you please provide > > the link to report that bug? > > Possibly they are refering to its kernel which I beleive is free > http://www.fsf.org/working-together/gang/freebsd . Nevertheless, it > shouldn't be endoresed because it promotes non free software. The naming situation in BSD is not like the situation in GNU/Linux. "FreeBSD"is the whole system, kernel + userland. The kernel alone is just called "the FreeBSD kernel". And even if they referred only to the kernel, as far as I know the situation with non-free blobs in the FreeBSD kernel is even worse than with the Linux Kernel.