On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 11:23:43PM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote: > The only "social cost" that I've seen semi-effectively argued so far is that > "some people think non-free is part of Debian". What is unpersuasive about: Every day a non-free package is "better" than a free alternative (or no alternative at all) is a day in which less work is potentially done by Debian developers and others on a free alternative to create or improve it, a day in which there is less public clamor for such a tool, and a day in which there is less visible market need apparent to a company that may be willing to sponsor or underwrite the development of a free alternative in furtherance of its own ends.[1] ? Is it your belief that most people in the Free Software community would rather do nothing than work on Free Software? > I've yet to see a compelling argument as to why the remedy for this > particular problem is to remove non-free from our archive. You don't think the inability of anyone to get non-free Debian packages from a Debian archive site or mirror would dispel people's notions that they can get non-free packages from "Debian"? It strains my credulity, but I guess I will take you at your word. [1] Message-ID: <[🔎] 20021113201917.GN21010@apocalypse.deadbeast.net> -- G. Branden Robinson | Exercise your freedom of religion. Debian GNU/Linux | Set fire to a church of your branden@debian.org | choice. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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