Re: Free Software criteria -- about "Software distributions"

[Richard Stallman]

    I personally agree that the 'encouraging' word is not the right
    word here, due to the below MJ's rationale: for some non-expert
    people, just bugs in free software could 'encourage' the use of
    non-free software programs which does not has such bugs.

Weaknesses or faults in free programs could be part of someone's
motive to use a non-free program, that is true.  But these weaknesses
or faults don't explicitly speak in favor of the non-free program.
They do not say, "Using non-free programs is legitimate."

Bugs in our software are unfortunate, but not unethical.