Re: Can we do without non-free?
On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 10:13:23AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
> Joop Stakenborg wrote:
> >
> > Joey Hess wrote:
> > > Those who don't want to work on non-free are welcome not to. There are
> > > packages in non-free that have no counterpart in main.
> > Here is my point: we want to distribute FREE software. Why do we
> > need to have a non-free section? What packages from non-free do we
> > really need?
> We make it possible even for lusers like me who are bound to use non-free
> crap at work to benefit from the well designed system of Debian. When I
> had to take care about new versions there, too, I won't be able to do real
> work since I'm not working as a sys admin. I'm sure the same aplies to
> other parties as well.
What would be nice, and of a lot more practical value, is seeking out
non-free apps and their free equivalents. Ncftp and lftp were a good
example of this, before ncftp got gpl'ed. I use some things here and
there from non-free, but I would like to know if there is a free
program that does the same thing, so I can switch.
Thanks,
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David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw
Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org
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