Re: Discussion - non-free software removal
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 00:50:49 +0200, Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>
wrote:
>I think it's a logical consequence: if we drop the non-free section, then
>there will be greater pressure for packages to be considered "free".
In the real world, the users will feel pressured to drop Debian and
install some commercial distribution that is less free than Debian is
now.
Getting rid of non-free is a bad idea. If we go through with that, we
will do great harm to Debian GNU/Linux.
Greetings
Marc
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