Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No, he isn't. He's attempting to be pragmatic and promoting the idea of > having a useful distribution over a one which wouldn't be.
So in this hypothetical world, one in which a free operating system is impossible, we will either stop using computers or we will have a non-free operating system. *At that point*, Debian will have to decide whether our reason for existing has gone away, or whether we wish to become something different: an organization which no longer is trying to make a free operating system. It will have become impossible to fulfill our social contract (old or new), and that will be that. (The reason I say *old or new* is because the old one applied the DFSG to all software, and labelling a piece of software "firmware" doesn't make it any less software, for the same reason that calling a dog's tail a "leg" makes it into one.) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
