Re: `pure' [was: Software in main that is throughly useless without non-free software]

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On 4 May 1999, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote:

> Proprietary protocols are a problem.  Let's create a new distribution
> to set apart the packages that can work 100% when connected to a
> network that uses only free software (say an intranet that runs only
> Debian GNU `main').
> 
> Free ICQ clients fail this requirement, because on such a network,
> there wouldn't be any servers.
> 
> distribution             goodness/freedom rating
> ------------             -----------------------
> pure                     100.0% (entirely standalone)
> main                      99.7% (talks to the enemy)
> contrib                   99.5% (breeds with the enemy)
> non-free                   0.1% (hell, at least it's *software*)
> 
> Maybe a better name for `pure' would be `holy', which simply means
> `set apart.' ;)
> 
> Comments?

Need a little clarification to understand this:

Currently: Debian == main.
After this, how things would be, Debian == pure + main or Debian == pure?

Thanks.

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