On Ma, 11 sep 12, 14:47:57, Weaver wrote: > > There is a stage where the installer asks for contrib and non-free apt > list inclusions.
Only for expert installs AFAIK. > It would probably be best to incorporate this as a default in a newbie > install. In my opinion that would be a bad idea. While I can accept that some (most?) people don't want or need to know about the intricacies of an operating system I think they should be educated about their freedom (or lack of). They may end up giving it up and install non-free software (like many of us do as well), but at least it would be an informed decision. > Perhaps a note to explain this could be incorporated - 'If you are new to > open source free software, we recommend that you accept this option'- or > something along those lines might be appropriate. Debian is currently investigating *possibly*[1] removing any reference to non-free that might be considered a recommendation, in order to be accepted by the FSF as a free distro. [1] Debian may still end up keeping references to non-free if it considers the service to the users is more important than acceptance by the FSF. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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