[HLUG] Interesting item on main BBC Technology section.

[Paul Stenning]

There is no mention of Fedora, SUSE, Debian or many other popular 
distros either.

It says: "These are the GNU/Linux distributions we know of which only 
include and only propose free software. They reject non-free 
applications, non-free programming platforms, non-free drivers, or 
non-free firmware “blobs”."

It also says: "We do not have links to web sites of the well-known 
GNU/Linux system distributions, or to the well-known BSD system 
distributions, because all those sites explicitly describe, and 
facilitate access to, various non-free programs."

So it is obvious why Ubuntu and the other popular distros aren't included.


dicegeorge at hotmail dot com wrote:
> i clicked something there and got to
> http://www.gnu.org/links/links.html#FreeGNULinuxDistributions
> where i found no mention of ubunut
> which is the most populist unix distribution
> why?
> is there some linux ego war going on between www.gnu.org/ and ubuntu.org
> ??
> 
> why dont they sort it out!
> 
>                   [george]
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> From: "Julian Robbins" <joolsr at fastmail.fm>
> Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 9:52 PM
> To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group." <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Subject: [HLUG] Interesting item on main BBC Technology section.
> 
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> Been it a bit quiet recently, so thought I would post this.
>>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7487060.stm
>>
>> This link is from the main BBC Technology section, ie
>>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/default.stm
>>
>> I found myself reading it with interest, before discovering that it 
>> was written by Richard Stallman, a huge OSS advocate since the 70's.
>>
>> Well worth a read his item on Bill Gates ...
>>
>> Julian
>>
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