On Saturday 22 April 2006 11:14, Steve Lamb wrote: > Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > > Well, debian is pretty obvious about its purpose. It's a link right > > from the front page. Maybe people should be choosing other distros if > > they don't like bullet item number one of the social contract. Debian > > without the social contract would be just another distro. In other > > words, there would be no point to using debian without the contract. > > Funny, the #1 point for most people is apt, not the social contract. > #1 for *you* maybe. I arrived in late 1996 after my Windows install floppies would no longer work. Being a high school freshman at the time, I had no way to afford new install media. The DFSG was exactly what I was looking for in a new operating system. > Until then Debian is doing itself no favors my being obstructionist and > driving people away based on it's own restrictive use clauses. There's nothing stopping you from installing nonfree software on your system. You just probably won't be able to apt-get it. Case in point: You can get games for Linux at WalMart for around $20 per title. -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): baloo@ursine.ca Jabber: Because it's time to move forward http://ursine.ca/Ursine:Jabber
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