[Fwd: Wikipidia - Goodbye Red Hat and Fedora]

[Tim Lauridsen]

Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 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". 
>
>   
I don't accept the earth is round, so it must be flat !

Tim
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