[FSF India] RH, SuSE etc

[Raju Mathur]

>>>>> "Khuzaima" == Khuzaima A Lakdawala <klak@giasbm01.vsnl.net.in> writes:

    Khuzaima> [snip]

    Khuzaima> Why are some GNU/Linux distributions considered
    Khuzaima> "unethical" by some?  Well, because they add non-free,
    Khuzaima> proprietary applications in the garb of "value
    Khuzaima> addition". Basically, these are businesses which are
    Khuzaima> trying to get a free ride on the "Linux bandwagon" and
    Khuzaima> don't really have anything to do with the ideals of Free
    Khuzaima> Software.

You may be right for some distributions, but that's not strictly
correct.  Red Hat and SuSE, for example, produce large amounts of free
source code while adding non-free proprietary applications to their
distributions.  Sweeping generalisations (``Debian is good, everybody
else is a thief'' variety) tend to make their containing arguments
lose whatever merit they may have had.

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