Of hypocrisy and the FSF (Libervis) [LWN.net]

Of hypocrisy and the FSF (Libervis)

Posted Dec 12, 2006 1:41 UTC (Tue) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)
In reply to: Of hypocrisy and the FSF (Libervis) by sp.at
Parent article: Of hypocrisy and the FSF (Libervis)

Strange how the FSF's list doesn't include Fedora... in its discussion lists the "why doesn't <some encumbered stuff> work out of the box" complaint is rather common, it is always answered by pointing out that Fedora's objective is to include exclusively open source software.

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Of hypocrisy and the FSF (Libervis)

Posted Dec 12, 2006 13:54 UTC (Tue) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link]

indeed. i'm actually quite impressed by Red Hat's stand on Software
Freedom. i spoke with a Red Hat employee sometime ago, and he was very
clear: not a bit non-free stuff in Red Hat, my friend.

i asked why not supply a GPL mp3 codec? 'We're against patents, so we
don't want to include (possible) patent encumbered software. our
customers will complain to us. We can then point them to their governmet
to complain about software patents... If we would have delivered, they
wouldn't complain, nobody would know, and patents wouldn't be fought...'

well, i think that's not really amazing if it came from a FSF advocate or
a BSD volunteer. but this is from a company which wants to make money,
and i think it's very nice.