> few mentioned changes. Apples to apples comparisons I say. I adjust > my repositories in a repository browser and poke away. I find java, I > find tools to work with many non-free pieces of software as well. > > Could you explain what "I adjust my repositories in a repository > browser" means, precisely? I need to know the details in order to see > whether this is a problem that gNewSense is responsible for. > > Non-free software is available on the net, and people can find and > install it. I think that is unethical, but gNewSense is not > responsible for that (and neither is OpenBSD). On the other hand, if > there is something in gNewSense recommending or leading you to that > non-free software, that would be the responsibility of gNewSense. > > So OpenBSD becomes non-free because we don't have a database column > that labels stuff non-free, or a special folder for non-free packages? > > Putting the non-free software in a separate folder or labeling it is > not enough. That is what Debian does, and that's why I don't > recommend Debian. Likewise, that's what Ubuntu does nowadays, which > is why I don't recommend Ubuntu. Gobuntu does the same thing -- the > non-free repositories are disabled by default, but a dialog box offers > the chance to enable them. So I don't recommend Gobuntu either. > > (Gobuntu also has the problem that its name is so close to Ubuntu that > people would get them confused. Practically speaking it is not > feasible to recommend Gobuntu without recommending Ubuntu.) > > The right thing to do is kick out the non-free softwre entirely. I > tried for years to persuade Debian to do that, and eventually I gave > up on them. I tried to talk with the Ubuntu developers about this, > too, and did not succeed. All I can do is not recommend those > distros.
Boo hoo, hoo, hoo. We don't care about your failures, Richard. Get of our mailing lists, or we WILL start cc'ing your groups' mailing lists.
