Re: [gNewSense-users] Vrms Comments

[Karl Goetz]

On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:48:53 -0400
Ted Smith <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 07:11 +0100, Paul O'Malley - gnu's not unix -
> wrote:
> > Ted Smith wrote:
> > >> On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:05:01 +0000
> > >> Eric Morey <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> I found this post and comments on Vrms to interesting:
> > >>> http://blog.nizarus.org/2009/09/are-you-a-100-free-user
> > >>>
> > >>> Eric...
> > > 
> > nice one ted
> > > 
> > > RMS would certainly not agree with (much of) this output.
> > 
> > some guy called ompaul made a comment about it on the web page
> > pointing out that we kind of IGNORE IT COMPLETELY but it seems he
> > was wrong.. ;-)
> > 
> > MOST of us ignore it. ;-)
> > 
> Actually, there's a long history (going back to Gobuntu) of trying to
> reform VRMS. It's never really taken off. 
> 
> All it would take is a small bit of ubuntu-ization to make the

Or a not-so-small bit, as it requires patching all the packages which
(in)correctly report themselves as free/non-free.

> behavior correct in Ubuntu (which uses the FSF designation of
> freedom) and gNewSense. Nobody wants to write the perl code, I

well.... for some value of 'use' ;)
kk

> guess. ;-)


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