LWN headline: Blame Fedora = High Praise

[Rahul Sundaram]

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.

Even if it is more free relegating such freedom to a side project makes 
it a move that is less beneficial compared to dealing with the 
complexity of managing that primarily in a mainstream distribution.

Free software is not a niche.

Rahul