[wellylug] Distrowatch: the big 3 compared (SUSE/Fedora/Mandrake)

[Jamie Baddeley]

On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 17:26, Damon Lynch wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 16:41, Jamie Baddeley wrote:
> > On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 15:13, Wood Brent wrote:
> > > Do the above untainted distro's avoid including any tainted code from evil
> > > commercial organisations who sell their software?
> > > 
> > Yes. By default Debian does not install the non-free branch - which
> > contains many of the packages that contain licensing challenges. Of
> > course the user is able to add the non-free branch, but this is their
> > decision - not the distributions.
> > 
> > So, in answer to your question - yes. Well at least for Debian anyway.
> > 
> 
> This is confusing "free" as in GNU freedom and "commercial organisations
> who sell their software".  
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#TOCCommercial
> 
> As RMS says there, please don't use "commercial" as a synonym for
> "non-free." That confuses two entirely different issues.

Ahh, my mistake. Colour me politically corrected :-)

I normally associate 'tainted' with non-free.

cheers

jamie