Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 13:40:06 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Richard Stallman remains hypocritical liar? Message-ID: <20140407134006.4dc3b88f.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <53428C30.9010308@gmail.com> References: <COL127-W196BBA3116CA72EE3FDA9AE86F0@phx.gbl> <53428C30.9010308@gmail.com>
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On Mon, 07 Apr 2014 13:29:52 +0200, David Demelier wrote: > In short, RMS said on the OpenBSD mailing list that it's not a free > operating system because you can install non-free software (e.g adobe > flash). So it would also be possible to say the same about FreeBSD because the ports collection _can_ be used to install non-open or non-free software because it contains components to do so. On the other hand, the OS itself, if I understand things correctly, does not contain such software. (Here again we can state the difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD which have "the OS" as a unified complex of software which is being maintained by a core team, and "everything else" which is kept in the ports collection to be installed as additional software usually _independently_ from the OS, whereas GNU/Linux operating systems usually compose their "base system" of selected packages at the distribution designers' will.) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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