Re: Bug#147303: ITP: winex -- A DESCRIPTION
On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 03:05, Marc Leeman wrote:
> > I'd like to register my objection to this package being installed, even
> > in non-free. As a Transgaming subscriber and supporter of their work, I
> > don't want to see Transgaming's work be diluted, and I imagine that many
> > people feel similarly. I urge the prospective maintainer to reconsider.
>
> If I might remark, this attitude is pretty short sighted and is not
> consistent with anything what FS/OS stands for.
Of course, Transgaming's WineX is neither free software nor open source,
so none of these arguments are really applicable.
> Immagine someone saying "I object to the distribution of debian, because
> it distributes GNU/Linux in a binary way and this might dilute and be
> confused with the work of Slackware", some years ago.
This would be more appropriate if people were paying for the right to
download binary versions of slackware, and it was under a non-free
license, and future development depended on people continuing to pay,
none of which AFAIK was true.
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