Re: Can we do without non-free?

[Edward Betts <edward@hairnet.demon.co.uk>]

On Thu, 20 Aug, 1998, Joop Stakenborg wrote:
> It is time to drop non-free. Debian has so many packages now, there must
> be a counterpart
> of a non-free package in the main distribution. If we can drop non-free
> this means we
> can really distribute free software and put all our effort into the main
> distribution

non-free is not part of the distribution.

getting rid of features for potical (not legal like copyright problems) reasons
is just plain dumb. i can not find any free speach synesisers in debian, so
by removing non-free you prevent irritate all of our blind users.

-- 
Edward Betts