1. Stallman states that Linux current version is partially non-free. *1 A program can't be partially non-free. A program is free if users have the four freedoms, if not, it is non-free. The users of Linux does not have the freedom to access the source code of parts of it (freedom 1).
2. Stallman states that Torvald's version of Linux is non-free. *2 There is no free version of Linux. Free operative systems which use modified versions of Linux exist, but since those modifications are not adopted by Torvalds's project (Linux), the term GNU/Linux can't refer to a free version of it. Even modifying the meaning of the name Linux to refeer to any of those free operative systems doesn't work, since Torvald's "version" of Linux surpass by far the number of users that any such operative system has. So the term GNU/Linux is not even practically "OK". 3. Stallman states that the name of Gobuntu (a GNU/Linux operative system more free that any popular GNU/Linux operative system) is so close to Ubuntu that, practically speaking, it is not feasible to recommend Gobuntu without recommending Ubuntu. *3 GNU/Linux is the preferred term for referring to a free operative system for the Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project. Yet they find OK the fact that they are using the name of a non-free kernel. 4. Stallman states that GNU developers didn't develop GNU just to make it a technical triumph, or just to have a success. Their goal was to win freedom, for they and for us. *4 They failed the moment they considered Linux, a non-free program, fitted well as the kernel of its project; sufficiently well to not do any serious development on its own kernel. Hurd offers the GNU Project the option to release the much awaited GNU operative system now. If winning freedom is the goal, then an inmature free kernel is not a problem. And, ironically, the immature state of Hurd is because of Linux. Active and continuous development on Hurd does not ocurr because it isn't needed by the GNU Project. If Linux hadn't been used in the first place by the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation, Hurd would be quite mature after 18 years of its birth, and the free operative system envisioned by Stallman back in 1983 would be a reality. 5. The foundation directed by Stallman removes Linux from its Free Software Directory but does not disassociate from it. Be a real man, Richard, replace Linux with Hurd, fork Linux, or stop the hypocrisy. Either way, answer publicly, and not off-list. *1 http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/linux-gnu-freedom.html *2 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/134377 *3 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/134522 *4 http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;211669437;pp;2
