On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 03:52:29AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 12:43:39PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > What makes 'running free windows drivers for stuff' so much more > > unrealistic than 'running free windows software for stuff'? Especially > > seen as how no Windows software is packaged for Debian, so that our > > users would have to do this themselves? > I can, personally, point to Free Software that I've run under Wine on > Debian. I can't do the same for free drivers running under ndiswrapper, and > I don't see that anyone else in this discussion has done so either. That > makes the second case a hypothetical, and IMHO it seems to be a contrived > one.
Emulators/games have been moved[1] from contrib to main after someone has done free data files which are essentially "proof of concept" in nature. I fail to see why availability of a CIPE driver for ndiswrapper doesn't fall into the same category. A requirement for main "must be usefull in a free software only enviroinement" is the the beginning of the road to madness. Next theill come for free clients for protocols that (currently) only have non-free servers to connect to. Who the hell has the right to define what is usefull anyway? [1] sarien atleast -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
