Re: ITP: DeCSS
On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 05:46:23PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 10:45:47PM +0000, Bradley Bell wrote:
> > a utility to strip web pages of Cascading Style Sheets. :-)
> >
> > see http://pigdog.org/decss/
> > and http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/02/18/1313206&mode=thread
>
> I understand the reason behind this program, but please don't put it into
> Debian. Even the author says it is useless. If you want to support the
> cause, just put it on your own personal site (or even link to it from your
> site/debian pages).
>
> Just don't waste real resources that we need for other things.
Well, I don't really agree that this is a waste of Debian's resources,
except for my own free time. However, on further thought, this type of
thing is likely to be a greater cause for confusion among our own users
than 'The Man', so I've changed my mind.
-brad
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