LWN headline: Blame Fedora = High Praise

[John Poelstra]

Martin Michlmayr said the following on 04/12/2007 09:01 AM Pacific Time:
> * Luis Villa <luis at tieguy.org> [2007-04-12 11:51]:
>> You might also discuss the new announcement that the next ubuntu
>> release will have a Libre version. Again, I know direct
>> confrontations aren't fun, but Fedora should at least consider
>> publicly asking 'what took you so long?' and 'why isn't the main
>> distro free?' instead of allowing Mark to take credit for what he
>> should have been doing all along.
> 
>>From what I understand, that flavour of Ubuntu will be more free (*)
> than Fedora (e.g. no firmware, no images/sound that don't include full
> source), so such an announcement might backfire.
> 
> (*) Depending on how you define freedom, obviously.  I'm well aware
> that there's little agreement what "freedom" means when applied to
> firmware, images/sound, documentation etc.

On a related topic... from the Fedora main page...

"...All in pursuit of the best operating system and platform that free 
software can provide."

What don't we have a link there to the Fedora definition of "free software?"

John