Re: Discussion - non-free software removal
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 11:09:37AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 12:01:35PM -0500, Shaya Potter wrote:
> > it takes time and resources that would be duplicating a lot of the
> > effort that is already put into maintaing the debian mirror system.
> > duplicate effort/resources is bad.
>
> It takes time and resources to write an installer. Time and resources to
> write a packaging system. Time and resources to maintain a website. RedHat
> already has all of those things. Does that mean that Debian is bad?
>
> It's true that it will take time and resources to set up a non-free archive.
> It's also true that there's no particular reason that Debian should do it.
Particularly as we already have one which works fine.
Hamish
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