On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 08:40:00PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes: > > > No, the compromise is Debian distributes non-free packages, but it > > also has a section that's free, and anyone who doesn't like non-free is > > welcome to ignore everything else. > > > > Pretending that Debian's focussed on what things are called rather than > > what things are certainly seems ignorant historically, and still seems > > pretty dubious. > > It's obvious to you that what things are called is irrelevant, but it > is, in fact, one of the things that the Social Contract is concerned > with. > > What you're saying is that because you disagree with the other side, > you don't have to respect the compromise at all. It *is* important to > some of us what it's called, and we had a good compromise to deal with > that.
Thomas, for your information, until yesterday or so, i never have seen any compromise from the drop non-free folk. Friendly, Sven Luther
