Re: [directory-discuss] 'Bait and surrender'

[J.B. Nicholson]

Svetlana Tkachenko wrote:
> I appreciate this question being brought up. While I see how certain
> labels are subjective as RMS pointed out, the FSF directory is linked to
> from free distributions; _for our free distributions to continue to
> qualify as free, the FSF directory should not have any gateways to
> proprietary at all_ in any form whatsoever.

Wouldn't implementing this mean prohibiting some free software from 
appearing in this free software directory?

With regard to programs that have a less capable free variant and a more 
capable non-free variant, it seems to me that there's a difference between 
running, sharing, and improving the free variant while eschewing the 
non-free variant. Should one want to, one could improve the free variant to 
the point where it satisfies needs as well as the proprietary variant.