Not the whole GR argument. I meant that this argument: >"people that would not work on Debian or Free >Software anyway" will want to work on providing debian users with >infrastructure for using non free software in a free environment? for the GR, is ridiculous. On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 03:02:17PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Michael Cardenas <mbc@debian.org> writes: > > > This argument for the GR is totally baffling to me. > > Here's what I think is the best argument. > > The Debian distribution is supposed to be free software. Many, many, > many people think that it currently includes non-free software. We > should fix that problem. > > When I started this whole thread by correcting someone who referred to > a non-free package as part of Debian, I was told that I was being > pedantic. If the current compromise is merely pedantic, then it > something has seriously broken down. > > > -- michael cardenas | lead software engineer, lindows.com hyperpoem.net | GNU/Linux software developer people.debian.org/~mbc | encrypted email preferred "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free... it expects what never was and never will be." - Thomas Jefferson
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