What about it? I think we should consider it... because there is no "fight" between Debian and Commercial software... and Commercial is not Proprietary....
----- Forwarded message from "Robert J. Chassell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 21:31:36 +0000 (UTC) From: "Robert J. Chassell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [PubSoft] Re: Debian and Commercial SW To: Stefan Probst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/intro/why_debian states: <quote> Incredible amounts of software Debian comes with over 8710 different pieces of software. Every bit of it is free. If you have commercial software that runs under Linux, you can still use it - in fact, there may even be an installer in Debian that will automatically install and set up everything for you. <unquote> This sounds on first reading like Free Software is something different from "Commercial Software". I am here in Vietnam constantly fighting against the false polarisation "Free SW vs. Commercial SW" .... Maybe the Debians should change their wording? Yes -- they should. If you can misunderstand that `commercial' means the free as well as restricted software sold by companies such as IBM or HP, then others will misunderstand as well. Please help them fix this bug! -- Robert J. Chassell Rattlesnake Enterprises http://www.rattlesnake.com GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.teak.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ PubSoft mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.isoc.org/mailman/listinfo/pubsoft ----- End forwarded message -----
