On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 10:56:17PM -0400, Joe Drew wrote: > On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 22:50, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > I think your request is completely out-of-line. Debian's job is not > > to help software hoarders. Indeed, if we had an official attitude, it > > was that we have a goal of putting them out of that business > > entirely. We don't actually have such an official stance. But we > > are, broadly speaking, against them. Then they are currently lying with their license 'It's free but if you use your freedom, we will change the license' --> fuck them > This whole problem would just go away if non-free weren't part of the > archive. > > And as mentioned before (by Joseph Carter), if WineX gets installed in > Debian, it's likely that Transgaming would just change their license to > disallow distribution of later versions, which would make the WineX > package rapidly obsolete and rather useless. > > > If you have a personal financial interest in the matter, you should > > recuse yourself. Even if it's not financial but ideologic. > My only interest is a pragmatic one: let me play the games I want. Loki > tried but failed. And you want to compromise our freedom for that. > Incidentally I said the a similar to people who wanted to copy my Loki > CDs: "Buy it yourself." And ? We respect the intellectual property. Nobody is trying to package a propietary non free as in free-beer software. > > -- > Joe Drew <hoserhead@woot.net> <drew@debian.org> > > Please encrypt email sent to me. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- Christophe Barbé <christophe.barbe@ufies.org> GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about. -- John von Neumann
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