Re: Discussion - non-free software removal

["Keith G. Murphy" <keithmur@mindspring.com>]

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?
Damn, there it is, exactly the sophistry I was talking about.

Thanks.