On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 05:33:46PM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote: > So, when John says the following: > > | Nominally, you have accepted the same social contract as everyone else and > | would claim to adhere to Debian's strong Free Software stance. I fail to > | see why you are taking such a pro-proprietary stance within an organization > | such as Debian. > > He is talking about his own future, modified version of the Social Contract? > And anyone who doesn't adhere to that is pro-proprietary? > > What John seems to be claiming is that Sections 1 and 5 in the current > Social Contract conflict with each other. The people who are arguing with > him see it differently. That doesn't make them pro-proprietary. Perhaps he conceives of the possibility that Debian's promotion of non-free software through our distribution of it retards the progress of Free Software, thus working against it as our Social Contract implies will not. -- G. Branden Robinson | A committee is a life form with six Debian GNU/Linux | or more legs and no brain. branden@debian.org | -- Robert Heinlein http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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