On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:13:46AM -0600, Scott Dier wrote: > On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 14:19, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Does Debian have the right to decide whether or not to terminate a > > service? Does the service belong to Debian, or must it remain forever, > > as a public entitlement, completely irrelevant of the level of desire of > > the public to use it? > > Or, is this actually the most compelling argument in the mass of knots > above? Is this about users? Is this about getting packages to apt-get > install painlessly? Is this about bandwidth? Is this about disk > space? Or is this about skilled peoples time being wasted on > maintaining another infrastructure for non-free software? I imagine all of these factors are part of the equation that each of us will solve for ourselves when this GR goes to a vote. All we are really doing in this discussion is attempting to influence the weighting multipliers we each apply to each term of the equation. > We might all have, individually, a small percentage of installed > applications when using vrms... However, the combination of all users > most likely cover a wide range of requirements. I find the term "requirements" more persuasive when applied to packages like graphviz than to stuff like angband and bsdgames-nonfree. > This range of requirements, coupled with the resource saving of using > existing infrastructure could easily enough justify the opinion: > Wasting skilled developer time on maintaining a secondary How wasteful can it be, if it's worth doing? > infrastructure for non-free software is possibly detrimental to Free > software development and the *human* resources of the project as a > whole. I don't see how that necessarily follows. The speculation that some people will just stop spending time fooling with stuff like angband is also plausible. (Hey, for all I know angband is a great game, but it's hard for me to conceive of it as mission-critical to anyone.) -- G. Branden Robinson | The last Christian died on the Debian GNU/Linux | cross. branden@debian.org | -- Friedrich Nietzsche http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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