Fwd: [GNU/FSF Press] Press release: FSF announces release of gNewSense 1.0

[Alexander Jacob Tsykin]

On Monday 06 November 2006 22:33, Andy wrote:
> Has anyone considered that the connections with launchpad have been
> removed because the gNewSense guys can't run their own version of
> launchpad and using one hosted by canonical could cause problems? It
> would give canonical a level of control over gNewSense and the
> developers might not want that risk?
>
I doubt it. if they didn't feel serious about removing all proprietary code, 
then they wouldn't have bothered makign the distribution at all, because, 
lets be sertious. This distribution is ubuntu but with worse hardware 
support.
> Note I am not saying canonical would do anything they shouldn't but if
> you have to trust someone than that's often a good reason not to.

Not really. They have to trust somebody, they're not exactly going it alone, 
because they are quite reliant on FSF money. I don't think the trust issue is 
particularly major. Plus, if anything happened in the future, then they coudl 
jsut pull gNewSense of Launchpad, nobody says it always has to be stuck to 
Launchpad. No, I suspect that in this they are acting on principle.

Sasha