On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 12:43:39PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 03:33:19PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 09:11:50PM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote: > > > The reality is that we can't imagine all the uses our users might have for > > > this software, > > You don't have to imagine all the uses, just the realistic ones, which > > in this case is simply "running non-free Windows drivers for stuff". > What makes 'running free windows drivers for stuff' so much more > unrealistic than 'running free windows software for stuff'? Especially > seen as how no Windows software is packaged for Debian, so that our > users would have to do this themselves? I can, personally, point to Free Software that I've run under Wine on Debian. I can't do the same for free drivers running under ndiswrapper, and I don't see that anyone else in this discussion has done so either. That makes the second case a hypothetical, and IMHO it seems to be a contrived one. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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