On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 03:45:03PM -0500, Jim Penny wrote: > Wow, an actual testable hypothesis. Is non-free growing relative to > main? Is it growing absolutely? Could we have some numbers on how > non-free has changed across the years? > > My own impression is that it is actually getting smaller, both > relatively, and probably absolutely. > > If so, it is my opinion that this acrimonious debate is not worth > the electrons used to illuminate it. If the proportion is decaying asymptotically, then, we'll never actually be rid of non-free, so the argument that we need only be patient would fail. Why doesn't an opponent of the GR offer a quanitative measure for when it *would* be safe to stop distributing non-free software? It isn't just the proponents of the GR who should be compelled to present figures. -- G. Branden Robinson | Q: How does a Unix guru have sex? Debian GNU/Linux | A: unzip;strip;touch;finger;mount; branden@debian.org | fsck;more;yes;fsck;fsck;fsck; http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | umount;sleep
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