Re: weekly policy summary
Hi,
Thank you, Marcus, for remindig me of this. Yes, I think this
is better than choosing one option or the other, for _other_ people.
As far as I, personally, am concerned, our previous conclusion
on this topic remains the final word -- I have seen nothing new come
up in the recent discussion (please go and read the archives ;-).
manoj
>>"Marcus" == Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:
Marcus> It's not about hiding non-free software.
Marcus> It's about having the _choice_. If I, as a user, am offended
Marcus> by non-free software, I want to have the choice to switch
Marcus> off, quite actively, all references to non-free. If I, as a
Marcus> user, want to see them, I should be able to switch them on.
Marcus> Currently, dselect will not respect my wish and show me all
Marcus> references to non-free software regardless if I want to see
Marcus> them or not.
Marcus> Both suggestions that have been extracted from the very long
Marcus> discussion make it possible to have a choice.
Marcus> Not _we_ should make this decision. The user should. That's
Marcus> what the proposals are about.
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Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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