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Re: Squeak in Debian?



Lex Spoon wrote:
> 3. We would be in good company, because Squeak is already distributed
> like crazy. [...]

I read this kind of reasoning quite often lately, but I think it's void
considering that Debian tries to be careful about licenses. SUSE and
RedHat distribute and promote proprietary software. Those are not good
examples.

> 4. Apple is trying to support open source; it would be horrible PR for 
> them should they try and trick legal fees out of an open source grop.

Is Apple really supporting free software? Is MacOS (or related) free? Is
software you "abandoned" (as you described what Apple did with Squeak) a
way to _support_ free software?

bye,
  Roland




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