On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 22:50, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Joe Wreschnig wrote: > > Debian distributes a huge amount of non-free software in non-free. It is > "Huge"? Really? See my count later (unfortunately because of the aforementioned broken mailer, I can't find the thread at the moment) -- it is 1GB of uncompressed data, and that's just for one architecture, in unstable/non-free. I would call a gigabyte "huge", but then I remember the days of < 1MB of RAM. > > not "part of Debian", but that's just a convenient fiction so some > > people can sleep better at night. > Well, it's also a way of telling the difference. :-) As well as a way of > making sure that the core system does not *depend* on non-free software. > Other ways are certainly possible. Yes. Unfortunately, since other distributions don't do this, I can't go through and easily compile a number for them. :( > > Florian only claimed that Debian > > distributes the largest chunk of non-free software, and we definitely > > do. :/ > Out of distributors of things in .deb form only, I assume? Definitely out of those. But I would be more surprised than not to find that Mandrake and Fedora distribute more non-free software than us, either on a per-program or per-megabyte count. SuSE and Red Hat, much less surprised (but they work with a lot of proprietary vendors directly). After counting I am less sure than I was when I made that assertion. Again, if someone wants to take the time to go through these other distributions and actually count up non-free bits, I would love hard numbers on those. -- Joe Wreschnig <piman@debian.org>
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