Re: GR: Removal of non-free
On 2004-01-02 18:47:50 +0000 Raul Miller <moth@magenta.com> wrote:
> > Has someone asked you to create [or re-create] non-free?
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 09:09:04PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
> You seemed to claim that supporters of this GR should do so before it
> is passed. If that is incorrect, sorry but then it seems your messages
> confused me.
Here, you are talking about an example I gave, of how the social contract
might be changed to get rid of non-free, in a useful fashion.
That example was indeed a suggestion which would involve people
creating some infrastructure for non-free. And, it was a part of a
larger question (which, in essence, is: what are we doing to the users
who currently depend on this software). But it's certainly not part of
our current project.
The best way to get rid of non-free would involve writing free
replacements for all software in non-free. But that's a lot of work,
and I am not going to insist on that people write any software.
On the other hand, the recent proposals for getting rid of non-free
appear to me as "solutions looking for a problem" rather than anything
I'd want to see implemented.
And it probably is the case that getting anything useful done would
require some real effort.
--
Raul
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