Re: Software in main that is throughly useless without non-free software
Hi,
>>"James" == James Troup <james@nocrew.org> writes:
James> Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:
>> Really? I think otherwise. I think your views are fascist. Stop
>> trying to control people, and impose your mores on them.
James> Control people? Who am I trying to control? I simply
James> proposed an extension/alteration/whatever to policy.
True. But this is, IMHO, a rule which need not be in place --
and the reasons were, well, almost non existant.
James> For someone who is so anti-'ad hominem' arguments, you seem to
James> be using them fairly freely against me. Thanks, it really
James> makes me feel good.
I did only retaliate against accusations of fallacious
reasoning; and indeed, with the baggage the phrase used, the
implications of delibrate obfuscation. I note you elided out the
comment I was replying to.
>> Who are you to judge how useful some program is to me?
James> We already do. We say that a program is not useful if it has a
James> Depends: or Recommends: on non-main software.
I think not. Photoshop is immensly useful. So is gated. We
just do not think we can, or like to, distribute them. The utility
value of the program has nothing to do with it.
manoj
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