Comments on: G-Nuisance http://www.freedomdreams.co.uk/blog/2008/06/27/g-nuisance/ Ben Webb - a teenager dreaming of freedom - in computing and in life Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:03:45 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Joel http://www.freedomdreams.co.uk/blog/2008/06/27/g-nuisance/comment-page-1/#comment-13236 Joel Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:24:12 +0000 http://www.freedomdreams.co.uk/blog/?p=41#comment-13236 One thing that troubles me about switching to gNewsense or Ututo is that different organizations have different ideas about what Free Software (with a capital F) is. The Debian maintainers of Emacs refuse to include the Emacs manuals because they don't agree with the GFDL --- so I make my own definition of a free distro and use that. Joel One thing that troubles me about switching to gNewsense or Ututo is that different organizations have different ideas about what Free Software (with a capital F) is. The Debian maintainers of Emacs refuse to include the Emacs manuals because they don’t agree with the GFDL — so I make my own definition of a free distro and use that.

Joel

]]> By: libervisco http://www.freedomdreams.co.uk/blog/2008/06/27/g-nuisance/comment-page-1/#comment-84 libervisco Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:28:18 +0000 http://www.freedomdreams.co.uk/blog/?p=41#comment-84 I fully agree, good point. In a way, RMS is playing a role he sees for himself and apparently that role includes a virtue of absolute non-compromising. That sometimes work and sometimes doesn't. Perhaps more often the latter even, but that's RMS. Freedomware may have started with him and he may have helped stay the course firm in the direction of more freedomware and less proprietary software, but he is by far not the only one successfully spreading the word about freedomware and its benefits nor is his strategy necessarily the only valid one. I fully agree, good point.

In a way, RMS is playing a role he sees for himself and apparently that role includes a virtue of absolute non-compromising. That sometimes work and sometimes doesn’t. Perhaps more often the latter even, but that’s RMS. Freedomware may have started with him and he may have helped stay the course firm in the direction of more freedomware and less proprietary software, but he is by far not the only one successfully spreading the word about freedomware and its benefits nor is his strategy necessarily the only valid one.

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