Zlatan, it is not the word that is forbidden, at all. And some articles on FSF websites are obviously 6 years old, older then Free System Distribution Guidelines.
It is about what a Free System shall promote, not what users shall promote. As I told you free system is like teacher, users are students. Pointing out to mutual breaches of agreements is not elevating neither of parties higher. In fact on the link I have not seen "alternative", that was just comment on the mailing list. Mailing list is not Free System Distribution. You are programmer and you make me so hard time, like you don't want to understand? There is 1 function, Free System Distribution, it shall comply to Free System Distribution Guidelines. As simple as that. There are 99 functions, which do not need to comply to those guidelines. It is organization that provides guidelines, for those who wish to apply. Think of it as a computer program and commands to do. Program the first function correctly, and it will work. Instead of pointing out to each other, put focus on what you are doing, make a checklist on how to comply. Your director on mailing list sounds very reasonable. While I can bet that members of your group probably have their proprietary software at home, and some of them still use it, I don't mind. Just make a checklist, comply to the guidelines and get approved. I wish that PureOS get approved. I understand the combination when you get approved, you get new users, clients, I am not against that, despite your impression. It is about teaching, and all the other points in the guidelines. Making a copy of a system does not make a distribution to be endorsed. It would be silly. There is more to it, than just a copy of other operating system. Jean Louis On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 12:51:13AM +0100, Zlatan Todoric wrote: > Was tempted to reply but didn't want to make it public, so here is PM to you > > > On 11/11/2016 12:38 AM, Matt Lee wrote: > > There are lots of alternatives to proprietary software listed here: > > http://www.fsf.org/working-together/moving -- for both OS X and > > Windows users. > > > > One does not simply use forbidden word! > https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Alternative >