On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 05:47:52PM -0500, Joe Drew wrote: > On Mon, 2001-12-03 at 17:37, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > We also don't use our resources to compile and distribute binary > > packages for Solaris, or put our name behind an effort to do so. Why > > should we do anything different for Windows? > Has anybody ever actually made the effort to set up a > Solaris/[insert-non-free-OS] port? If not, this isn't a particularly > good argument. Then perhaps the text that sits at the top of the Debian homepage would be persuasive: What is Debian? Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian uses the Linux kernel (the core of an operating system), but most of the basic OS tools come from the GNU project; hence the name GNU/Linux. Any extension of the Debian trademark to cover a port of GNU software to a Win32 platform would be at odds with this definition of what `Debian' is. Changing the scope of the Debian project in this manner would require a pretty clear consensus from the developers. Obviously this wording will need to be changed anyway when the Debian Hurd port comes to term, but that still falls under the scope of a "free operating system". Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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