On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:16:48 -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 06:12:08PM +0200, David Paleino wrote: > > Please don't take this as a provoking mail, I'm in NM, and God knows how > > many times I've read the Social Contract (and DFSG, and DMUP, and $policy) > > before applying :)... > > Did I miss something? > > No. I agree with you, and actually proposed a General Resolution 8 > years ago to get rid of non-free software: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2000/06/msg00549.html > http://www.debian.org/vote/2000/vote_0008 > > It was never voted on because the project secretary disappeared, if > memory serves. > > There was also a vote in 2004 on a different resolution: > > http://www.debian.org/vote/2004/vote_002 > > I guess this means that it's about time for another once-every-4-years > vote :-) Probably :) If I were a DD (-- and I'm NM), I'd think a bit more before proposing a GR to *completely* remove non-free. Non-free is, for some users, necessary (I'd happily --purge flashplugin-nonfree, but I can't -- I need it [work, university, $foo]). Instead of removing non-free, I'd support the idea of non-free.org, and if that will make the FSF endorse us again, why not? :) Non-free is there just because the free counterparts aren't optimal. Someday these will, and non-free will just disappear from Debian :) M2C, David -- . ''`. Debian maintainer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://snipr.com/qa_page `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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