On Jun 16, 2008, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
Certain forms of software being non modifiable is perfectly ok
according to FSF.
Err... I'm sure there's some misunderstanding here somewhere. Where
did you get that idea?
Do you by any chance mistake 'non-functional data' (images, songs,
etc) for software?
Fedora as a project has done more to promote free software than most
mainstream distributions.
I think that's true, even though it has regressed in this regard in
the past 2 or 3 releases.
We aren't perfect however and that is well known.
We shouldn't claim otherwise, though, to avoid misguiding people and
generating useless discussions between the well-known truth and claims
that conflict with it, as much as we'd like the claims to be true and
the well-known truth to be past mistakes long fixed.
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