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Re: non-free software



On Mar 30, King Lee decided to present us with:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Bob Hilliard wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> OOPS - I did not mean to start a flame war.  May I give
> a little more context to my original post?
> 
> I will use the Debian packages when I can.  If xv doesn't
> come with Debian, maybe I will use a substitue if it is 
> as functional, or close.  However there are packages
> like netpbm which, to my knowledge cannot be replaced.

Imagemagick outdates both (it contains a lot of programs;
"display" does what xv does and is far superior, and "convert"
does what netpbm does and more).

Of course, there is the problem that a lot of programs out there
depend on netpbm; isn't there a way to "port" them to
Imagemagick?

BTW Imagemagick is IIRC a good example of the future. It's a
100% DFSG-free software written and maintained by a company.

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