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Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution



Matthias Urlichs <matthias <at> urlichs.de> writes:

> Care to tell us why? Other than "ugh, it's written by Lennart"??

The “why” does not matter. Users do not have to justify why they
need to use something. I worked in for company that had a strict
“no PHP” policy once. I have encountered other more or less weird
scenarios in the “enterprise” (bah, this sounds like a four-letter
word) world about having to use something, or do something, despite
it being nōn-free, while otherwise embracing OSS. (We had a case of
someone wanting to put proprietary software they have to use inside
a .deb so it can be easilier managed and integrated well with Debian
and removed cleanly, recently, on some mailing list.)

Let me quote:

 4. Our priorities are our users and free software
    We will be guided by the needs of our users and the free software
    community. We will place their interests first in our priorities.
    We will support the needs of our users for operation in many
    different kinds of computing environments. We will not object to
    non-free works that are intended to be used on Debian systems, or

So stop this already!

bye,
//mirabilos


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