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Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge



On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 05:09:45PM -0400, Michael Poole wrote:
> Glenn Maynard writes:
> 
> > On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 08:14:44AM -0400, Michael Poole wrote:
> >> The entire point of the recent GR was that some Debian developers and
> >> users use "software" as the rest of the world uses the word, and
> >> exclude things like fonts, images, or statistical data.
> >
> > The entire point of the recent GR was that some people try to use "software"
> > incorrectly to further their goal of getting non-free software in Debian.
> 
> Please go back to elementary school logic.  The GR clarifies (or
> rewrites, depending on your beliefs) the intent of the Debian project.
> It does not define English.  I would argue that it concedes that
> "software" is -- at best -- an ambiguous word.

It merely concedes that some people are trying to make it so.

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