Is RMS biased against Debian?

Posted Aug 21, 2003 17:00 UTC (Thu) by jdthood (guest, #4157)
In reply to: Is RMS biased against Debian? by angdraug
Parent article: Debian GNU/Linux

> Richard's recommendation against Debian in favor of LinEx appears
> more as a result of the disagreement between FSF and Debian on
> DFSG (in)compliance of the GNU FDL

You are accusing RMS of behaving pettily. Do you have any
evidence to back up your interpretation of his behavior?

Is RMS biased against Debian?

Posted Aug 22, 2003 9:05 UTC (Fri) by angdraug (subscriber, #7487) [Link]

I never met RMS in person so I can't say whether he has a habit to behave pettily or not. Hence question mark in the subject of my message: given how obvious is the evidence that LinEx ships non-free software, it has to be either that Richard didn't do due research before making such claims, or that he overlooked this matter deliberately.

RMS is widely known for paying a lot of attention to details, especially when it comes to software freedom, that is why second options seems more likely to me.

And no, I don't feel good about finding inconsistency in his claims: I believe that RMS is an essential part of our community, and I see this issue as a bug that I want to be fixed ;-)