Re: Discussion - non-free software removal
>>"John" == John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> writes:
John> On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 11:09:02AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
John> It seems that with all the obvious interest in this, and the number of
John> people we have around that have well-connected high-powered machines to
John> offer, that it would be more unlikely that no replacement would appear.
>>
>> Fine. Find me one. Just one. That would take a couple of
>> non-free packages. I suspect you'll find that it is harder than you
>> think.
John> Hell, I'll host angband in an apt-gettable repository myself if
John> that's what it takes to get this GR passed :-)
well, it would certainly make me less strident.
John> What other packages did you have in mind?
graphviz.
But that is merely my list -- I am sure that others with votes
have other non-free packages they are wedded to. (presence of
graphviz has enabled me to convert 5 server/work stations at work
over to Debian; it used to be a NT/Red Hat shop before. The presence of
a few essential non-free packages has allowed me to start converting
people over to free software).
manoj
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