On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 11:36:48AM -0700, Bruce Sass wrote: > On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Travis Crump wrote: > <...> > > There is a long long ongoing debate in debian-devel[1] on this. Please > > don't start another debate here. > > This seems like the proper place for a discussion, they are wanting to > change the Social Contract, and we are the society they have the > contract with. > > I'm worried that if Debian totally ignores the non-free software > world, it will ignore Debian. Just to give my 2cents worth, this is exactly my worry, that one of the last few bastions of *free* software will cave in to weak users and a nasty general attitude. Being free does not mean that everything is easy, it means that all choices you make are *yours*, and not somebody elses. This might seem like difficult concept to grasp for a lot of people, but being free is hard work. > I think a much better solution would be for Debian to find a > multi-national commercial partner to take over non-free before it > gets dumped... maybe HP. This is a typical _drone_ argument. There is no such thing as a multi-national corporation that works for the public good. Trust me, I work for one of 'em. The best solution for Debian is to completely drop "non-free" and let the control freaks fight it out amongst themselves. And just to satisfy my curiosity, why is HP so especially suited to take on the task of maintaining "non-free"? > > - Bruce > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- Best Regards Nicolaus Kedegren The FIELD GUIDE to NORTH AMERICAN MALES SPECIES: Cranial Males SUBSPECIES: The Hacker (homo computatis) Courtship & Mating: Due to extreme deprivation, HOMO COMPUTATIS maintains a near perpetual state of sexual readiness. Courtship behavior alternates between awkward shyness and abrupt advances. When he finally mates, he chooses a female engineer with an unblinking stare, a tight mouth, and a complete collection of Campbell's soup-can recipes. Track: Trash cans full of pale green and white perforated paper and old copies of the Allen-Bradley catalog. Comments: Extremely fond of bad puns and jokes that need long explanations.
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