Re: Xandros review

[Jeff Licquia <jeff@licquia.org>]

On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 17:08, Steven Pritchard wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 05:20:53PM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote:
> > Only one distribution I know of considers the distinction between free
> > and restrictive software in their distro to be important: Debian.
> 
> Actually, Red Hat scores pretty well on that these days...  I know
> they're just playing CYA, but they've gone to extremes lately to avoid
> anything non-free or patent-encumbered in the core distribution.
> (Sometimes seemingly ridiculous extremes, like removing all
> MP3-playing software from Red Hat 8.0.)

I do agree with this generally.

But even they throw free and non-free into the same melting pot (or did,
last time I checked).  No one but Debian that I've seen makes the
distinction at the level of the installer or package manager.

-- 
Jeff Licquia <jeff@licquia.org>

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