kernel-libre (hopefully 100% Free) for Fedora 8 and rawhide
Alexandre Oliva
aoliva at redhat.com
Tue Mar 25 17:47:29 UTC 2008
On Mar 25, 2008, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
> Once you remove the politics,
...that are the core of any mission, such as Fedora's stated mission,
and that make all of the difference in this case.
> it's essentially the same
because you've disregarded the only relevant point.
> as requesting to add a separate glibc that changes the resolving
> library. Or shipping two GNOMEs, one of which changes the default
> theme.
> Those obviously wouldn't be sane things to do.
Agreed. There aren't legal or ethical issues involved in these. And
they bear no relationship with Fedora's stated mission.
> That's why were telling you to work in the upstream
That won't work. Upstream doesn't value freedom like we do, they have
different goals and will take compromises I won't. And then I'd be
stuck.
Now, that Fedora wouldn't value freedom so much, to the point of
effetively rejecting the mere possibility of enabling people to ship a
Fedora spin built exclusively out of Free Software, and instead
setting me off into an impossible mission as a pre-condition, that's
quite surprising and saddening.
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Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/
Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org}
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