* Yavor Doganov yavor@doganov.org [060626 20:46]:
Correct. If someone uses non-free software that means that he/she doesn't value his/her freedom. But if someone, particularly if this someone is one of the major GNU distributions, a free software project, offers proprietary software to its users hiding behind the "Our priority are our users" slogan, well, that is not only totally unacceptable, it is disgusting.
Hiding depends from where you look. I think you are hiding behind your hate on evil licensed software, so you do not have to see the need of users. Sadly propietary software exists and many are locked into using it, but they still have the right to profit from as much free software as possible.
[...] This is absolute hypocrisy, while one cannot observe anything similar in the FSF's actions.
I think you are confusing hypocrisy with inconsitency. Debian does not claim all is good and well, but that there are many compromises and is not even at one with itself with many of those. It's not claiming only saints without failing are allowed to get salvation while freedom only matters for the one thing while for other things freedom is something totally different.
That both sides don't agree with each other over small areas (Debian's non-free, or the FSF's GFDL'd docs) really doesn't matter a huge amount in the grand scheme of things IMHO.
If you consider promoting and distributing of non-free software a small area, that's ok. But it is fundamental NOT to do that for those who support the Free Software Movement.
Please do not confuse support for Free Software with your opinion about how this should be done. For me its about freedom for the humans using software. Killing anyone writing, distributing, using or mentioning propietary software might be a good way to only have Free Software, but it would not solve the ultimate goal, to free the humans from restrictions from evily licensed software.
Bernhard R. Link