LWN headline: Blame Fedora = High Praise

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 09:01 -0700, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Luis Villa <luis at tieguy.org> [2007-04-12 11:51]:
> > You might also discuss the new announcement that the next ubuntu
> > release will have a Libre version. Again, I know direct
> > confrontations aren't fun, but Fedora should at least consider
> > publicly asking 'what took you so long?' and 'why isn't the main
> > distro free?' instead of allowing Mark to take credit for what he
> > should have been doing all along.
> 
> >From what I understand, that flavour of Ubuntu will be more free (*)
> than Fedora (e.g. no firmware, no images/sound that don't include full
> source), so such an announcement might backfire.
> 
> (*) Depending on how you define freedom, obviously.  I'm well aware
> that there's little agreement what "freedom" means when applied to
> firmware, images/sound, documentation etc.

Yep. It looks like GNUbuntu will be more "Free" than Fedora. Think
GNUsense.

~spot