On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Joseph Carter wrote: > > John's proposal is, IMO, a reaction to a growing movement within Debian > against the DFSG. I do believe that movement exists and has always > existed to some degree, but it's on the rise as Linux gains in popularity > and new people care less and less about the free foundation on which > Debian stands. They are the people who wanted to split non-free into > non-cd and non-free. They're the people who think the DFSG is too > restrictive, and they're a part of the group who believe Debian can't > divorce itself of non-free software now. (In fact, they don't believe it > could or should do so ever..) > There may be some examples of individuals who have the attitude you describe, but I think your overall analysis of the situation may be incorrect. You are confusing *pragmatic* support for an ideological position with not supporting that position at all...
Please tell me if you can explain why this is not the case. |> |= -+- |= |> | |- | |- |\ Peter Eckersley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~pde for techno-leftie inspiration, take a look at http://www.computerbank.org.au/
