Re: flame against non-free burning, time to think.
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 02:03:05PM +0100, Peter Mathiasson wrote:
> Realplayer, for instance, does not come with Windows, still Windows
> users seems to find it and be able to install it.
> It's no disservice not to distribute non-free software with our limited
> resources, is it?
Our resources aren't so limited that distributing non-free is enough of
a burden to even show up on the radar. Also, Windows doesn't even come
with a "tar" replacement or a compiler -- their example of distributed
distribution isn't really one to aspire to.
Cheers,
aj
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