On Lu, 05 dec 11, 17:06:21, Clark C. Evans wrote: > > The free/contrib distinction makes people scratch their heads. > "Why isn't this Free?" It's an important lever. Some people > just don't think of Twitter or Facebook as software at all > and will happily chain their work to it. I think the awareness > of this is quite important. What is a Free service? (Facebook uses XMPP for chat) IMO the "battle" here will be "fought" at service level (Diaspora*), not client level. > User interfaces and package managers could choose to display > contrib and non-free works with a special icon or something > rather than completely ignoring their existence? aptitude separates main, contrib and non-free. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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