Fedora not "free" enough for GNU?

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 09:59:49 -0400,
  Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 2) Intellectual "Property" issues
> 
> Hardware vendors don't want other hardware vendors to know how they run
> their hardware so that their design can't be copied or stolen.

You mean that hardware vendors don't want their competitors to see how they
are doing things because they may be violating one of their competitors'
patents and having the source out their makes it easier for their competitors
to see this.