On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 11:01:39PM +0100, Anders Arnholm wrote: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 09:21:37AM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > > free software is good. If some software has to be non-free untill better > > > alternatives arise let it be soo. > > They arose years ago, in the shape of Linux and the Hurd. Guess you > > were too busy using non-free systems to notice... > > ON the same way, as long as users of Windows knows that Debian > GNU/Linux is the alternative where nothing works. And nothing in there > world so far is IE, Outlook, Powerpoint and Word. Then they won't use > Debian even if they get it installed. If hey on the other hand get used > to all the good software in Debian the slow and easy way, not restarting > just adding it, some, a few more might thing that it's actually usefull. > Then open-source gains... I like to see this as a possitive change, > instead of them talking bad about Debian that cant be use for anything > usefull. I will not be a part of any effort to evangelise open-source software to people who do not already use it, and I will object strongly to anybody attempting to do this under the Debian banner. These arguments only serve to further convince me that this should not be a part of Debian. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | Dept. of Computing, `. `' | Imperial College, `- -><- | London, UK
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