Re: General Resolution: Removing non-free, Draft 2

["J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)" <jhm@cistron.nl>]

On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 16:29:30 +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote:
> Francesco Tapparo <ftapparo@ntt.it> writes:
> 
> > different from the debian "official archive". It's very common to find
> > non-free and non-us (here in Europe) packages.
                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> Do you have data to back up "vast majority"?

Try living in Europe for a year, and you'll simply know from experience why
downloading isn't an option in many cases. 

I know of no country in Europe where affordable flat-fee internet access is
available to large parts of the population. Of course it is coming, e.g.
ADSL in (parts of?) Great Britain, ADSL and flat-fee ISDN in parts of the
Netherlands. For most people the only affordable internet connections are
analogue or ISDN connections, charged per second.

Ray
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Tevens ben ik van mening dat Nederland overdekt dient te worden.