On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 06:25:18PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > Indeed. I am saying that the very same ethical arguments that we use > for excluding software from main apply to excluding software from our > FTP site. This is not a novel question. It has been answered already > ad naseum.
Uh, no they don't. If you can make an argument that "this software is better than that software", for some particular classes of software, then that's a reason to *distinguish* the two classes, but it's not a reason to cease distributing it entirely. A similar argument that *is* a reason for ceasing to distribute it entirely is "this software is better than that software *for all use cases*". That's certainly possible to achieve for individual pieces of software -- at least if you limit it to "99.99% of use cases" or similar -- but doesn't come close to applying to proprietary software in general, nor IMO the semi-free software we distribute in non-free. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. Linux.conf.au 2004 -- Because we can. http://conf.linux.org.au/ -- Jan 12-17, 2004
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