On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 08:29:31PM +0100, Peter Mathiasson wrote: > Though "supports its use, and we provide infrastructure" does not > necessarily include support from our security team for instance. A good point. In some cases we simply don't have the power to be pro-active with regards to resolving security flaws in non-free packages, because we lack the source code, permission to distribute binaries based on modified source code, and so forth. So that's one scenario where shipping non-free *harms* our users. Caveat warezor! -- G. Branden Robinson | "To be is to do" -- Plato Debian GNU/Linux | "To do is to be" -- Aristotle branden@debian.org | "Do be do be do" -- Sinatra http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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