Re: Dissatisfied w/Debian? Make something 'pure'.

[Ari Makela <hauva@iki.fi>]

Andrew Pimlott writes:
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 12:31:03PM +0200, David N. Welton wrote:
> >     If people really want to do something useful, which will show in a
> >     practical way that we can do without non-free software, why don't
> >     you take all of the programs in non-free, and make a hit list.
> 
> Such a list was discussed here under the subject "freedomization
> task list" (or similar) some months ago.  I'm sure it could stand
> some new attention.

I think it has a serious flaw: how can people agree on what non-free
software is needed? People have different needs. The current non-free
is a sensible compromise and anything else harms everybody: Debian
project, Debian maintainers and Debian users.

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