On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 12:04:17PM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: > > True. This description of the project contains already a lot of > the ideas we are shaking on the list. > > There are still concerns about the fact that some of the > software we use are big hairballs and enforce technical lock-ins. > Eg. the Linux kernel and the X-Window system. There's also the issue > of non-free binary blobs, like proprietary firmwares and drivers. We > must accept some of these for the sake of having a working OS. > > BUT, everywhere there is choice, the solution(s) in the spirit > of KISS and UNIX shall be preferred and the others rejected. Only > when we haven't the choice will we install the non-KISS/non-UNIX.
Exactly. Prioritizing, not prohibiting. > Do you think it could be a valid criteria, "Software violating > GPL, KISS or DOTADIW is accepted only if there is no possible > replacement" ? Let's not screw existig users by kicking something they are relying on out of the archives when a clean alternative becomes available. Leave it out of the default install, perhaps. Prioritizing, not banishing. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
