On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:48:21PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > If you find a place for all he non-free software, and thus > make your statement actually true; (instead of a mere sophist device > to gloss over the problems), things shall be different. Why not let "the market" sort it out? Those non-free packages deserving of a home will find one. If there is sufficient demand for an index of non-free .debs, someone will create one. Possibly as a subscription-based update service. :) The removal of non-free should thus appeal to the conservative and capitalist developers among us, as it represents a termination of a welfare service for the lower class (non-free), and the opening up of market opportunities. ;-) John's GR does not mandate the termination of other welfare services for non-free packages, such as the BTS. -- G. Branden Robinson | Organized religion is a sham and a Debian GNU/Linux | crutch for weak-minded people who branden@debian.org | need strength in numbers. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Jesse Ventura
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