Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

Alexandre Oliva aoliva at redhat.com
Mon Jul 21 18:46:08 UTC 2008


Sorry about the duplicate follow up, I got distracted while looking
for the links below and forgot to mention them.

On Jul 21, 2008, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:

> How would you propose dealing with it when your purpose is to promote
> FOSS and as many choices as possible, then?

You might want to read on or watch the presentation about the Paradox
of Choice, and read about the "Fifth [Software] Freedom".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice
http://fsfla.org/circular/2007-02.en#1

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