On 30 Mar 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi, > >>"King" == King Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > King> I hope you continue to support packages like xv and netpbm. I > King> think there are too many good packages out there for the > King> freeware community to ignore. If you support them please make > King> them as easily accessible as possible. As I said before I, and > King> I am sure others, will use ultra-free software before the > King> semi-free software, and commercial software as a last resort. > > > Thank you. On the contrary, thank you and all other developers for bringing us Debian, GNU, and all the other freeware In reply to another note not included here, it would be impractical for me to create another distribution. But more important, Linux does not need another distribution. Microsoft will dominate the software world unless everyone in the Unix community -- BSD, SCO, RedHat, Debian, and others -- work together to make more software -- free and commercial -- available to as many users as possible on as many platforms as possible. My initial post was a suggestion that the Debian community consider encouraging cdrom vendors to include non-free software. > > I do not think we shall ever stop supporting non-free > packages, since they are indeed in wide use by our users. And I think > that there are vendors who sell parts non-free bundled in with the so > called ``official'' CD's, either as an add on, or as a non-official > debian cd set. I will look for those vendors King Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
