On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 03:59:03AM +0200, Juergen A. Erhard wrote: > Sudhakar> I thought the goal of Debian was to produce the best > Sudhakar> operating system possible. > Yes, you're right, that's (one of the) goal(s) of Debian. But that > "possible" of course means "possible withing the constraints we've set > us". *All* we're doing here is reevaluing and resetting these > constraints. Well, up until now we've only limited ourselves to the constraints imposed upon us by the law (non-US) and by people's licenses (can't distribute binaries (qmail, pine, KDE), can't distribute for profit (removed from CD's), and can't distribute at all (realplayer, MS Office)). This proposal marks a change in that philosophy in that now we're meant to impose constraints on ourselves in what we distribute as well. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG encrypted mail preferred. ``We reject: kings, presidents, and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and working code.'' -- Dave Clark
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