Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > To reaffirm the principles you are working to erode. > > > > Your principles are the support and spreading of non-free software? > > Not at all. I refer to the principles stated in the Debian > Social Contract: > > 5. Programs That Don't Meet Our Free-Software Standards > We acknowledge that some of our users require the use of programs > that don't conform to the Debian Free Software Guidelines.
My proposal does not violate that. > 4. Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software > We will be guided by the needs of our users and the free-software > community. We will place their interests first in our priorities. > We will support the needs of our users for operation in many > different kinds of computing environment. Nor does it violate that. > > Just what is wrong with eroding them? > > Because they are IMHO good, valuable principles. Obviously you have > no problem with throwing out the social contract on a whim. My proposal does not throw out the social contract. It strengthens it. I fail to see how you can call supporting and spreading non-free software "good, valuable principles." There is no logical or ethical basis for such a statement.
