Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jul 20, 2008, Matthew Saltzman <mjs at clemson.edu> wrote:

> The dispute is over whether those terms are the best ones for the
> promotion of FOSS.

I wouldn't put it like that.  Promoting FOSS hardly makes any sense.

Several times, you end up having to decide between promoting software
freedom and promoting the software that happens to be Free (and OSS).
Depending on whether you're guided by FS or OSS values, you'll tend to
consistently choose one in detriment of the other.

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