On Apr 07, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > It subverts my principles (and probably also others). The fact that > the company itself is probably also going to distribute non-free > software also subverts my principles. > > The thing I want say is: Debian is about free software, IMHO we should > not have such a prominent sponser promoting non-free > software. Especially as we probably don't need it.
Not to beat this to death, but a large number of Debian packages contain code that was developed by people who work for companies that produce non-free software. Among them: gs debconf alien kernel-image-* anything we got from Red Hat (they own Cygnus, which does non-free stuff) sourceforge cupsys-* apache zope python* perl* xfree86-* Need I go on? Yes, it's a shame Lindows.com hosts things on non-free servers. My general reaction to that is that if they're dumb enough to run IIS and pay for it, that's on them, not us. Chris -- Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.lordsutch.com/chris/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
