On Thursday 03 April 2008, Chris Walters wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > | On 04/03/08 15:39, Ivan Savcic wrote: > |> On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Ron Johnson > |> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > <snip> > > |>> That smells of elitism. (Not that I mind...) > |> > |> No, it's just you can't have all. It's a matter of compromise. A > |> "pick two" game, if you wish. And Debian simply can't please > |> everyone. The point is, why be bothered by that? Debian set it's > |> goals and a corresponding target group was gathered around them. > |> And a good one, if you ask me. > | > | Because it's "elitist" to not want to please all the people all the > | time... > > No, it is elitist to say, "Debian is the only good distribution, the > only truly GNU/Linux distribution worth having. All others are for > the uneducated masses, who don't care about being right. We are > smarter and better than they are, because we choose Debian - all hail > the mighty Debian!"
According to St. IGNUcious himself (aka RMS), at a talk I saw him give last Thursday, Debian isn't a true GNU/Linux distro because it includes non-free software. I'm not saying I agree with him on this, but it is his opinion that there are only a few truly free distros out there. He named them and I've forgotten them, but they were not any names I recognized or had heard of before and I'm familiar with at least the top 25-50 names. Hal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
