Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Request for Endorsement for ConnochaetOS

[Quiliro Ordóñez]

On 23/08/11 03:42, Henry Jensen wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 21:59:46 -0500
> Quiliro Ordóñez<address@hidden>  wrote:
>
> > > > At http://www.fsf.org/working-together/gang/ the FSF even endorses
> > > > FreeBSD, which is known to have proprietary software in their ports.
> > > > (personally I think, FreeBSD shouldn't be listed there. If they must
> > > > list a BSD system it should be OpenBSD, which has, in contrast to
> > > > FreeBSD, an explicit free software agenda).
> > > I don't see FreeBSD as an endorsed free OS. Will you please provide
> > > the link to report that bug?
> > Possibly they are refering to its kernel which I beleive is free
> > http://www.fsf.org/working-together/gang/freebsd . Nevertheless, it
> > shouldn't be endoresed because it promotes non free software.
> The naming situation in BSD is not like the situation in GNU/Linux.
> "FreeBSD"is the whole system, kernel + userland. The kernel alone is
> just called "the FreeBSD kernel". And even if they referred only to the
> kernel, as far as I know the situation with non-free blobs in the
> FreeBSD kernel is even worse than with the Linux Kernel.


I agree. It should not be mentioned as endorsed. A comment should be 
included as with other non-free distros.

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