On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:42:47PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 11:48:02PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > I see non-free as an area where we put in software for which > > there is not yet a free replacement, so that our usaers can use > > Debian, not as a pedantically pure toy, but as a useful tool in a > > world that is not yet all libre software, in the hope that, just like > > netscape, free replacements shall render the software in non-free > > obsolete. > > As a matter of fact, both acroread and netscape-* had free replacements > (although not identical) for years. One of them perhaps a bit less > functional than the non-free one (xpdf), the other ones quite more so > (mozilla, konqueror). Still, they were not removed from non-free by the > first sight of a free replacement, but got abandoned because of the zlib > security exploit, which could not be fixed lacking the source.
and it is still not possible to look at some banking web pages with a mozilla based browser. Myself, faced with this situation, just changed banks, but not everyone is able to do this. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
