On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 04:38:19PM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote: > On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 06:05:38PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Tell that to the folks who imply that John is hypocritical for doing so, > > and use that ad homimem implication as a means of attempting to > > undermine support for the General Resolution. (The implication being > > that John Is A Bad Person for Telling Us To Do As He Says And Not As He > > Does, and Therefore What He Says Must Be As Bad As He Is.) > > Really? When coming from John himself, I interpret it more like a > patronizing, "a lot of my friends are black" type statement. And when I see > him use it that way, it becomes abundantly clear to me why he has left his > non-free packages in the archive. I don't understand what you're saying at all. Can you be a little more clear? > > So, it is your contention that Debian is operating something like a > > public utility by distributing (some) packages that do not meet the > > Debian Free Software Guidelines. > > > > That is a perspective that should be elaborated upon. > > Water, electricity and gas are utilities. Hot water is not. You fail in > your attempt at purposely missing my point. <scratches head> So I inadvertently succeeded in grasping your point? I beg to differ, because now you have confused me further. > Debian adds value to itself by distributing non-free. Debian the Project or Debian the GNU/Linux distribution? > We would be both devaluing Debian, and acting against the needs of our > users (which are supposed to be paramount) by removing non-free. Well, no: # Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software Perhaps you should propose an alternative General Resolution where we eliminate the last three words and related language from the Social Contract. -- G. Branden Robinson | Mob rule isn't any prettier just Debian GNU/Linux | because you call your mob a branden@debian.org | government. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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