Launchpad appears to be a website

Launchpad appears to be a website

Posted Nov 3, 2006 3:08 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: Launchpad appears to be a website by grantingram
Parent article: New distribution: gNewSense 1.0

Well I don't think that they are making a issue of it aside from the fact that they don't want anything to do with it.

I don't know how much influance RMS has over FSF, but the basic idea that he has is that when you have a software distro that provides non-free software it is a non-free operating system. Every system including Fedora and Debian endorse non-free software in one manner or another. (non-free and contrib repositories for instance)

Their explicit goal is to make a Free operating system. If people want to use propriatory software on a system I don't think they have a problem with it nor do they think that it's Ubuntu's obligation to free-up launchpad.

Ubuntu can free it or not. FSF just wants to have a free system, at least at this point, they aren't demanding anybody else do anything. (except remain compliant with the licensing and terms of GPL, of course)

Anyways so far what I've seen from Launchpad.. it is VERY unimpressing. I don't think that gNewSense is going to be missing out on anything.

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