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Re: Debian Weekly News - August 19th, 2003



On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 00:43, Mike Hommey wrote:

> On Wednesday 20 August 2003 00:34, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > Le mar 19/08/2003 à 23:33, Mike Hommey a écrit :
> > > Ok, let's google a bit, and.... shazaam !
> > > http://www.linex.org/sources/linex/debian/linex/nvidia-glx_1.0.4349-1_i38
> > >6.deb Oh ! non-free software !
> > >
> > > Thanks Richard for keeping me laughing.
> >
> > Bah, if RMS really didn't like non-free software, he would give up with
> > that FDL stuff...
> 
> Did he ever say he didn't like non-free _documentation_ ?
> 
  "The biggest deficiency in our free operating systems is not in the
   software--it is the lack of good free manuals that we can include in
   our systems.  Documentation is an essential part of any software
   package; when an important free software package does not come with a
   good free manual, that is a major gap.  We have many such gaps today.

  "Free documentation, like free software, is a matter of freedom, not
   price.  The criterion for a free manual is pretty much the same as for
   free software: it is a matter of giving all users certain freedoms.
   Redistribution (including commercial sale) must be permitted, on-line
   and on paper, so that the manual can accompany every copy of the
   program.

  "Permission for modification is crucial too."   

  - Richard Stallman, 1998

Scott
-- 
Have you ever, ever felt like this?
Had strange things happen?  Are you going round the twist?

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