[CS-FSLUG] The Moral Foundation of Free Software

[Aaron Patrick Lehmann]

On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 10:09:23PM -0800, David Aikema wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 15:12:56 -0500, Fred A. Miller <fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:
> > Try "IMMORAL monopoly."
> 
> I thought that you were boycotting Mandrake due to France's opposition
> to the Iraq war (although at the same time ... given that the German
> position appears to be the same I can't understand why you're not
> boycotting SuSE as well).
> 
> As far as RedHat is concerned, given the licensing situation with
> RHEL, you begin to run into the same proprietary issues there as you
> would experience with Microsoft (although perhaps not to the same
> extent).
> 
> I think that the above has eliminated most of the major distributions
> (except perhaps slackware or debian neither of which are the easiest
> to introduce - although still learnable).  What distribution do you
> propose as the moral alternative to Microsoft?

Knoppix!  Oh wait...  Knopper is from Germania...  *shrug*:-)

Aaron Lehmann
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