Re: GR: Removal of non-free
>>>>> "Anthony" == Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes:
Anthony> Which is to say, Debian did all it's done in order to
Anthony> support free software. Whatever effort's spent on this
Anthony> new non-free network, most of it is going to be of no
Anthony> benefit to those of us who don't use non-free software.
Anthony> Basically, the issue is why spend 100 man hours on
Anthony> maintaining Debian, then another 90 man hours on
Anthony> maintaining a separate non-free repository, when you can
Anthony> spend 101 man hours maintaining Debian and it's existing
Anthony> support for non-free?
Could splitting non-free be seen as counter-productive to our aims?
ie. "Non-Free software has been just been split from Debian at a cost
of 90 man hours; Non-free software must be important for
users. Otherwise, if it wasn't important, why bother splitting it
apart?"
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Brian May <bam@debian.org>
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