FSF violations in Gobuntu

Posted Jun 14, 2008 1:57 UTC (Sat) by pr1268 (guest, #24648)
In reply to: Changes to Gobuntu by elanthis
Parent article: Changes to Gobuntu

I thought that earlier versions of Gobuntu contained software packages which violated the FSF philosophies (someone correct me if I'm wrong). My take on this is that Canonical is working on streamlining their Linux release offerings with this. (Disclosure: My perception is influenced by comments made by Mark Shuttleworth in the LWN interview last week.)

As for whether non-free bits (as defined by the most fundamentalist interpretation of RMS' philosophies) will exist in vanilla Ubuntu releases, well, I suspect yes. However, seeing how even Gobuntu's efforts to appease fans of the FSF's agenda failed, I suppose that Canonical has taken a more pragmatic and simplified approach to both meeting the needs of FLOSS purists and regular Linux users.