Rico Secada wrote:
In the interview he states: "I am unhappy with the various distributions of BSD, because all of them include, in their installation systems, the ports system, they all include some non-free programs. And as a result I can't recommend any of them."
"Include" is an incorrect word choice. For example, the OpenBSD ports system includes Opera, but you won't find Opera on the OpenBSD CD or FTP site.
For kicks, I did a little digging. From http://www.gnu.org/links/links.html#FreeGNULinuxDistributions (listed in the comments in the article) they list Dynebolic as "consist[ing] entirely of free software". However, according to their site (http://muse.dyne.org/), their live CD contains MuSE, which contains LAME, which OpenBSD doesn't distribute because it's patent-encumbered (http://mp3licensing.com/royalty/software.html).
So, what Stallman seems to be saying is that preventing users from running the software they choose is more important than respecting patents.
