Re: Why "free" shouldn't have to mean "complicated"
On Mon, 5 May 2003 15:15:32 -0700, David Nusinow
<david.nusinow@verizon.net> said:
> This misses the entire point of everything else that I wrote that
> you didn't quote. Having it outside the main of Debian fails to
> serve our users, because our users shouldn't just be distro makers,
> but should also include people who want to run Debian on their
> desktops. We've already heard from these people, we should try to
> serve them better than by shoveling them off on Knopper.
The way free software works is that people who find a task
irresistibly important get down and work at it. So far, no one seems
to have taken the hook -- but exhorting other people to do the work
rarely, in my experience, works.
manoj
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