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		sciurus on Dec 7, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Richard Stallman calls Ubuntu “spyware” because it... "does the FSF counter by forking Ubuntu and removing that feature?" It was forked in 2007; the FSF sponsors gNewSense (http://www.gnewsense.org/). You can find a list of the distributions the FSF recommends at https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html

vacri on Dec 7, 2012 [–]

Why didn't gNewSense just fork Debian? All they'd need to do would be disable the 'non-free' repo and block the offending firmware blobs. Instead they have to fork a fork of Debian and have more work on their plate stripping things out.

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