[Fwd: Wikipidia - Goodbye Red Hat and Fedora]

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Tue Oct 14 12:04:43 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 14:48 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 04:24 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> >> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 09:01:53AM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> >>> Ask your neighbor, if he would pay USD600 for a barrel of "free beer".
> >> I think you fundamentally miss the entire point of free software here.
> > I don't think so. 
> > 
> > I simply decided not to contribute to software products, which are not
> > freely (cost-free) available nor cost-freely redistributable and to
> > brand them as "non-free".
> 
> I tried to stay away from this flame but... I also can decide to call 
> "non-free" software that does not help me getting laid, how is that 
> relevant?
This rationale contributes to me not to consider RHEL and CentOS, which
is the rationale why I don't consider them to be replacements for a
"Fedora LTS".

Or differently: It doesn't matter what people sell as "free", it matters
what people accept as "free". 







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