On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 04:08:59PM -0400, eric a . Farris wrote: > i think that'll be the kicker. those of use with (slow|no) connection > at home will pay a price, either through long download times, or having > to find/burn our own non-free CD. i would hope that, if non-free (and i > assume contrib must follow) is pulled that it would be relatively easy > to make a non-free CD, even if it's suddenly "Unofficial" Debian. Who makes a non-free CD now? That's the whole point of non-free; the bits in there have license or patent issues that prevent distribution via commercial media like CDs. Anyone selling a non-free CD is almost certainly violating laws. It's be cool if everyone would calm down and realise that this is simply a call for a vote; the resolution will likely fail but hopefully it will prompt people to think about what Debian really is (and I agree with those who feel that Debian is primarily here to promote free software; that's why I use it). -- Nathan Norman "Eschew Obfuscation" Network Engineer GPG Key ID 1024D/51F98BB7 http://home.midco.net/~nnorman/ Key fingerprint = C5F4 A147 416C E0BF AB73 8BEF F0C8 255C 51F9 8BB7
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