On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:23:21PM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote: > <Sidenote> It looks as if everytime we can get rid of a good reason for > non-free (e.g. viable acroread alternatives), new reasons (firmware for > drivers) arise. Sigh.</Sidenote> That's because it's a bad premise to use utility as a basis for deciding whether or not to keep distributing non-free. There's always going to be something in non-free that someone finds "useful", from a toy to a medical application that keeps their children alive (the latter is a hypothetical case, as far as I know :) ). If an *objective* standard of usefulness had anything do with our decisions about what to ship, there'd be a lot less stuff in *main*, let alone non-free. Further discussion should probably take place on -project. -- G. Branden Robinson | Religion is regarded by the common Debian GNU/Linux | people as true, by the wise as branden@debian.org | false, and by the rulers as useful. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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