Re: Inconsistencies in our approach

[Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com>]

John Goerzen wrote:
> 1. Would removing the manual for Emacs, libc, or other important GNU
>    software benefit our users?
Yep.  I'm very unhappy with having non-free software (and software means 
 0s and 1s -- so nearly everything Debian distributes except the 
physical CDs) in Debian; as a user, I chose Debian at least partly for 
the Social Contract, which this violates.

>  Would it benefit Free Software?
Yep.  It would help promote the movement to have genuninely free manuals 
for those pieces of software; manuals which could be integrated into 
programs, used as help text, freely lifted from, etc.

I bet you thought you were asking rhetorical questions.

--Nathanael