On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 11:53:25AM +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > - GNU-loving folks, who are mostly found in Debian > > Sadly, this is not completely true. The GNU project can't even > recommend Debian as a possible GNU/Linux distribution since Debian is > not 100% free software.
The fact that GNU doesn't love Debian doesn't imply that most GNU-loving folks aren't to be found there. I think it is very true that they are. Debian happens to be the only mainstream distribution which clearly marks non-free packages as such, thus allowing users to not install them. At least for me, this is one of the most important reasons to use Debian. Oh and by the way, Debian itself _is_ 100% free software. The contrib and non-free sections are technically not part of Debian, but provided as a service to those who think they need them. If they really do is a separate discussion. If this service is good or bad for free software as well. Thanks, Bas -- I encourage people to send encrypted e-mail (see http://www.gnupg.org). If you have problems reading my e-mail, use a better reader. Please send the central message of e-mails as plain text in the message body, not as HTML and definitely not as MS Word. Please do not use the MS Word format for attachments either. For more information, see http://129.125.47.90/e-mail.html
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