On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 10:50:33PM +0100, Sergey V. Spiridonov wrote: > Raul Miller wrote: > >If Linux were on the majority of all desktops, I might buy into the > >idea that getting rid of non-free would benefit the majority of users. > >But, right now, the so many users use stuff so much less free than our > >"non-free" that that concept seems a bit silly. > > Is it very clever(ethical) to increase users dependency on non-free even > more? Is it clever(ethical) to spend resources on non-free? Whith a > little effort Debian can become the first free distibution in the world.
It already is. > This will be a great day. And, as non-free maintainer, i think i am free to spend my time as i choose, thank you very much. Developer time is the only meaningfull resource here, as it has already been said that non-free has a negligible impact on the rest of debian's infrastructure. Friendly, Sven Luther