On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 07:34:17PM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > > Why does there need to be anything else?
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 04:48:49PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > > I'm looking, perhaps in vain, for some rationale behind what you've > > been proposing. On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 01:32:15AM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > I thought it was obvious. 'Answering the question "Does Debian, as a > project, wish to discontinue support of non-free?"'. You seem to be saying you're not trying to improve anything? > > I certainly have restated the question. But I haven't *just* restated > > it -- that restatement was a part of a question. That question, at its > > crudest, is "What's the point?" > > The point of what? Supporting non-free? Not supporting it? Asking > whether we want to support it? I'd have thought the point of all these > were pretty obvious. I can think of several reasons for all of them > off the top of my head. Do tell. > > > Your reponses to it, including this last one[0], have all simply said "I > > > would vote [y], therefore I don't agree with removing it, so I don't > > > think we should remove it". I think we got that part already. Please > > > wait until the ballots go out before trying to vote :P > > > > You seem to be saying that it's futile to even ask if there's any benefit > > to be gained by dropping non-free. > > No, I'm saying that your argument is just circling endlessly around "I > don't want to drop non-free", and pointing out that you should wait > until the vote happens before trying to vote. Ok. How about, instead, we talk about the reasons for this change: what problems it solves, what it makes better, why it's a good idea? Thanks, -- Raul
