Now FSF has a distribution

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 11:43:39AM -0500, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> Those of us longer of tooth will recall that  Debian's original claim to
> fame was its sponsorship by the FSF, which paid Ian Murdock a salary
> during the distro's earliest days. I, for one, am not surprised that
> more details exist regarding the 1996 split than about the relationship
> itself.
> 
> Of course there are at least two sides to every story.
> 
> Debian's POV (from Bruce Perens):
> http://www.educ.umu.se/~bjorn/mhonarc-files/debian-announce/msg00014.html
> http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9603/0480.html
> 
> FSF's POV (from Richard Stallman):
> http://archive.humbug.org.au/ujgKlojfO1uLC2whuEzAUA==
> 
> Frankly, given all the baggage and history I find the release of
> Gnewsense almost hilarous, as it's trivial to maintain a 100%
> free-software installation of Debian or Ubuntu today without the FSF's
> help. OTOH, It finally gives those who are highly bugged by the phrase
> "Linux system" a fire hydrant around which to congregate and decry the
> linguisic insult of the masses. Maybe this means they'll leave the rest
> of us alone on that issue, in which case the release is worthwhile.

But debian already calls it Debian GNU/Linux.  Other than not having
completely banished the firmware in the kernel, and not having denounced
the non-free section, and not thinking the GNU documentation license is
"free", what else could FSF have against Debian?

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