From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
To: Quiliro Ordonez <quiliro@riseup.net>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: proposal to remove linux-Libre from Guix
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 01:21:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871s2qil7f.fsf@nckx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0465c809e1f86a491854eb265e2d8fe4@riseup.net>
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Quiliro Ordonez wrote:
> El 2019-03-28 21:38, Ricardo Wurmus escribió:
>> All this for merely giving people a reason to stop using the
>> term “Linux
>> distribution”?
>
> No. It is for helping people value the project and thus consider
> freedom
> more valueable than any other feature.
Switching from a GPL'ed to a *less* free (BSD-licenced) kernel
would be a huge step backwards for such people (of which I am
one).
>> PS: in case this was meant as a joke: it’s hard to be sure on
>> this
>> Internet of ours :)
>
> It is not a joke. But wouldn't it be a good one for April 1st?
Only if you provide a working patch porting Guix to FreeBSD, in
the spirit of Marius's systemd effort ;-)
Kind regards,
T G-R
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-28 23:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-28 20:34 proposal to remove linux-Libre from Guix Quiliro Ordonez
2019-03-28 21:38 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-03-28 22:38 ` Quiliro Ordonez
2019-03-29 0:21 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice [this message]
2019-03-29 15:48 ` ng0
2019-03-29 18:51 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-03-30 6:58 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2019-03-29 18:24 ` Quiliro Ordonez
2019-03-28 22:04 ` L p R n d n
2019-03-28 22:29 ` Quiliro Ordonez
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