Re: Clarifications
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In article <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.1000611012950.9515A-100000@oh.jesus.cam.ac.uk>,
Martin Keegan wrote:
>As someone who runs (as a member of several small groups of volunteers)
>several Debian systems (with about two hundred users in total), I'd
>have to argue that anything which increases the degree to which we have
>to go outside the Debian packaging system or decreases the consistency,
>quality and interoperability of the systems we run has to be a bad
>thing.
[snip]
>The Debian system *de facto* contains non-free, irrespective of the *de
>jure* position. Almost all users of Debian use non-free.
We need to make an effort to determine how many _users_ are using
non-free software before we can consider purging non-free.
No sane organization which desires to remain a viable entity stops
distributing a popular product.
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