No offense Seth, but I've heard all these arguments before. I am
getting tired of repeating myself as well.
I AM NOT THE FBI INVADING YOUR LIVING ROOM WITH RM, TRYING TO DELETE
ALL NON-FREE SOFTWARE FROM YOUR COMPUTER.
You can keep and use all the non-free software that you like.
The Debian distribution does not now contain non-free software.
Nothing is stopping people from setting up their own non-free
archives, and some already have.
You complain about "if non-free is removed from debian". Non-free is
not now part of Debian (the distribution), so how am I removing it?
I'm not going to deprive y'all of your beloved acroread. (BTW, you
have heard of xpdf and gv, right?)
-- John
Seth Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> * Ean R . Schuessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000928 12:25]:
> > To return to the crux of the biscuit, article 1 of the social contract says
> > that commercial software will not be part of the "distribution", period.
> > Five then says that we will offer commercial software via FTP, those concepts
> > seem to be fundamentally at odds.
>
> Constitutionality aside, if non-free is removed from debian, I will miss
> acroread and netscape and unzip. (I don't usually need zip, since
> windows users can also grok .tar.gz with winzip)
>
> I imagine some other people might miss their rsa and idea modules for
> gpg. (Which reminds me, why is the rsa module for gpg still in non-free?)
>
> Being the champions of free software doesn't always mean we have to be
> extremists about it. :)
>
> Just my two cents.
>
>
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