Re: Discussion - non-free software removal
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 02:23:36AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> We have one of the slowest release cycles on Earth and yet still command a
> sizable chunk of the market that has only grown as time as passed, by all
> measures I've seen.
On a tangential note, we usually release faster than Microsoft, and I don't
see that harming their market share. :)
> Indeed, time has revealed -- I think -- that non-free software is *less*
> relevant to Debian's purposes and success that perhaps even most of the
> optimists would have thought in 1997.
However, that doesn't mean we should dismiss all of the non-free packages
from our archive with a blanket statement. If someone spent a few man-hours
examining the non-free section, and showing what exactly is there really, it
would be _much_ easier for everyone to conclude that non-free can be
removed. Without that, all we have to rely on is our personal experiences
and gut feelings. Those two usually aren't ingredients for a consensus of
any kind.
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