Re: Non-Constitutional Voting Procedure
* Peter Eckersley <pde@cs.mu.OZ.AU> [001028 21:09]:
> You are confusing *pragmatic* support for an ideological
> position with not supporting that position at all...
Ok, I promise this is the last anyone will hear from me on the whole
issue.
I *love* free software. I love that I can run apt-get upgrade, and
download 90 free megs of free software updates each and every day, while
microserfs are waiting weeks for fixes to their more restrictive
software. (Or more open, if one wishes to consider the security
implications.. :)
But, somehow, I don't think Debian putting itself in a position to ship
without a graphical SSL web browser is a good idea. Currently, netscape
is the only one I have seen that supports SSL. Mozilla has it, but the
personal security managers have to be downloaded from somewhere else,
and I don't know if any exist yet. Maybe konqueror has support for SSL;
but it keeps complaining about libGLU not existing on my system, so I
can't test. (Why KDE needs OpenGL I do not understand.)
The only SSL-enabled free web client that I know of is w3m-ssl. And
while I like w3m, I am willing to bet I am in the minority.
So, while I love free software, I don't think killing non-free is a good
idea. Not until we can ship a free graphical ssl web browser.
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