I like it ! OK ! First thread : I started to make debian more free I made today wwwtable-compatibile program (freetable) so one program less will be in non-free. Does anyone want to try it ? Its perl, 6kB, GPL, 90%-wwwtable-compatibile, and when it will be able to embed one table into other we can package it and have debian a little more free
To everyone: Now I need some testers If you use wwwtable, please contact me. [this cc to -devel is due to this thread dont continue it when you will be talking about some other thread of this mail] Second thread : xearth will be probably 100%-free when author will have time to apply my patches (he promised) And the third thread : we need a very good task list for our highest-quality-ever 100%-free distro who wants to start it ? On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 07:41:47AM -0500, Caspian wrote: > I think that this is an idea whose time has really come-- to make a 100% > (TOTALLY) free distro _as good as the commercial/proprietaryish ones for > "end users"_ and suitable for heavy use by true geeks as well. This is a > project that I've wished to get involved in for quite some time now, and I > have numerous ideas as to how it could be implemented. > > If anyone else is interested in doing such a thing-- probably deriving it > from potato, once potato freezes (of course, work could be done on > individual components -before- potato freezes)-- let me know. I can set up > a mailing list or a Web discussion forum, and people can be gathered to > plan the dist. > > --Caspian > > On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 09:41:30AM -0500, Caspian wrote: > > > On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Bruce Perens wrote: > > > As much as anything with "commercial" in the name makes me feel saddened > > > just to talk about it, something like this clearly needs to be done. Yes. > > > This is definitely a good idea. Much as I sometimes wish to lash out at > > > the proprietary world by making a license even stricter than the GPL, I > > > know that I'd have to go such a route alone. Besides that, it might be > > > overreacting... > > > > > > Perhaps efforts could be made to provide free alternates for all (or at > > > least MOST) non-free packages... i.e. Mozilla for Netscape, my proposed > > > PiClone/PINE-Clone for pico/PINE, yatadayatadayatada... and of course if > > > it had a EULA, it wouldn't restrict the OS to "adults" only, nor would it > > > make misleading statements about what copyrights "protect" about the > > > dist... :) > > > > The highest priority task I see now is a web-browser deserving its name. > > This is neither non-free Netscape nor almost-free Mozilla, > > nor free Lynx, w3m, gzilla nor express > > It SHOULD NOT try to be free Netscape > > It SHOULD try to be free MSIE > > Because we should respect all good soft, no matter of their origin. > > Also having text-mode browser with capability of scanning many pages > > at a time a very big advantagement. > > The most commonly included non-free soft in Linux is Netscape. > > Then 100%-free povray and at least my computer will be free.
