MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2004-03-04 15:06:30 +0000 Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> * MJ Ray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040304 15:40]: >>> On 2004-03-04 11:46:14 +0000 Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> wrote: >>>> That's an old argument, and it's not going to be more true just >>>> because it is repeated. Most users _can_ make the difference between >>>> Debian and non-free. >>> If it's so old, do we have any good numbers on it, or are both >>> views just wind? >> In reality, whether or not to remove non-free will never be solved >> because one side has the better arguments. > > How does this relate to data on whether users can distinguish "in > non-free on a Debian mirror" and "part of the Debian operating system > distribution"? > >> So, I'm all for voting ASAP. > > Fortunately, there is enough time to challenge more people making > similarly unsupported arguments against the proposed GR. Hopefully, > they will obviously avoid questions too, like "Users won't consider > debian without non-free. \\ Do we know that? \\ I like pigs."
Fortunately, there is enough time to challenge more people forgetting that some of our user need non-free driver to install some hardware on their computer, and that without a non-free replacement, we are forgetting them and their need. Fortunately. The problem is not that user consider debian or not, it is that some of them need non-free. -- Rémi Vanicat
