"Alfred M. Szmidt" ams@gnu.org wrote:
I also expect that FSF has often distribued machines to developers that currently require non-free software, in the hope that it helps to develop free software for them. [...]
You expect, and guess, and assume quite alot about the GNU Project and the FSF.
I'm sure I've read it somewhere, but I can't find it on the new web sites. The section "Donated computers" on http://www.gnu.org/gnu/the-gnu-project.html suggests that it happened even in that flagship FSF project at first. Why not in others?
I agree with the comment that it's evil even when justified, FWIW.
Conversely, maybe it's time for those who want to work on replacing non-free software to join the debian project, who don't *distribute* non-free software but merely host it and are actively working to free or replace it.
Debian clearly is not working to replace any of its non-free parts that are part of Debian.
The donors of scores of man-hours spent on it each week salute you(!)
Debian still has a non-free Java system despite there being free ones.
Which of the java systems in debian (classpath, ecj, gcj, gij, jamvm, kaffe, sablevm, maybe more) is non-free?
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If you want to support free software, support Gnewsense, or UTUTO-e.
gNewSense is a good choice too.
Regards,