Re: Discussion - non-free software removal
Hello Branden,
Am 23:35 2002-11-18 -0500 hat Branden Robinson geschrieben:
>It's not a matter of ease, it's a matter of what people are exposed to
>when they're first exposed to the "Debian" product. In 1997 it was
>probably a CD-ROM or two. Nowadays it's probably a bootstrapping CD-ROM
>or so, and the rest of the distribution is retrieved from the net.
Nice idea, to download 980 MBytes with a Mobil-Telephone (Siemens S40
or Nokia Phonecard) with HSCSD (38400 Bps) from the net...
Not all people have a Backbone or an ADSL-Connection...
The same is for ISDN.
Please note, that I have e local mirror of buzz, rex, bo, hamm,
slink, potato AND woody... around 70% is made from CD and the
rest via Modem-Update...
But I do not use contrib or non-free. Nobody had ask for non-free
and contrib if I burn CD's for some one...
>> > The argument over whether we should distribute non-free on our
>> > Official CDs or not was extremely heated and contentious.
Oh yes, I agree with this argument.
I suggest four CD-Sets like
1 main binary
2 main source
3 contrib binary
4 non-free binary
Have a nice night
Michelle
from Strasbourg
Programming a graphical mail- and news-Client for the console
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