Re: The "Free" vs. "Non-Free" issue
On 2004-01-01 15:10:32 +0000 Raul Miller <moth@magenta.com> wrote:
But please don't demand other people avoid non-free software if you're
not willing to solve their problems.
Are the people using the Debian infrastructure to support non-free
helping to prevent the problems from being solved? Already, someone
has mentioned some Java packages that I think could be in Debian but
aren't. Is that because contrib is an easy enough home for them? If
so, then removing non-free and contrib from our infrastructure would
probably encourage them into Debian, solving one problem.
I have two problems with this message. Firstly, I can't understand the
repeated request that people who disagree with the use of non-free
software do things to support it. It is clearly harder to solve
problems we don't (can't? won't?) experience: why don't the people who
care want to do this work? Are they giving an unnecessary and
difficult precondition?
Secondly, I read this whole message, but didn't see a direct hook to a
particular vote. Wouldn't it be better on -project or another more
general list?
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