Re: A More Radical Multi-Arch Counter-Proposal

["Matthew A. Nicholson" <debian@matt-land.com>]

On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 21:56:39 +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer 
<bortzmeyer@nic.fr> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 12:47:13PM +0100,
>  Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote
>  a message of 27 lines which said:
>
> > Because otherwise debian is a small island of incompatibility. Firms
> > will produce their software as rpm for SuSe and RH amd64 and Debian
> > users will be left out.
>
> Since it is an issue only for commercial and closed software, why is
> it a problem? Free software can always be recompiled.

All software is not free software.  The Debian project knows that and 
wants to be compatible with non-free software as well.


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