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. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.complete.org Sr. Software Developer, Progeny Linux Systems, Inc. www.progenylinux.com #include <std_disclaimer.h> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
