On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 02:16:41PM +0100, Martin Albert wrote: > All DD! > > I really couldn't believe that i had actually read this: > > > The next release of Debian will not be accompanied by a non-free > > section; there will be no more stable releases of the non-free > > section. The Debian project will cease active support of the > > non-free section. Clause 5 of the social contract is repealed. > > Is my clock wrong, april 1st already? > > > I strongly and seriously object any such request as disgusting and > unrespectful. As it would dissemble Debian essentially, it is in itself > either destructive or otherwise meaningless and therefore silly. Yeah, well. Some people seem to think that by removing non-free, upstream authors would have more incentive to suddenly make their software free. This horse has been discussed to death and beyond on the debian-vote mailinglist already; but see Mail-Followup-To: (apart from actually voting, anything else is too late already). -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http://nl.linux.org "Stop breathing down my neck." "My breathing is merely a simulation." "So is my neck, stop it anyway!" -- Voyager's EMH versus the Prometheus' EMH, stardate 51462.
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