Re: GR: Removal of non-free
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:42:47PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 11:48:02PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > I see non-free as an area where we put in software for which
> > there is not yet a free replacement, so that our usaers can use
> > Debian, not as a pedantically pure toy, but as a useful tool in a
> > world that is not yet all libre software, in the hope that, just like
> > netscape, free replacements shall render the software in non-free
> > obsolete.
>
> As a matter of fact, both acroread and netscape-* had free replacements
> (although not identical) for years. One of them perhaps a bit less
> functional than the non-free one (xpdf), the other ones quite more so
> (mozilla, konqueror). Still, they were not removed from non-free by the
> first sight of a free replacement, but got abandoned because of the zlib
> security exploit, which could not be fixed lacking the source.
and it is still not possible to look at some banking web pages with a
mozilla based browser.
Myself, faced with this situation, just changed banks, but not everyone
is able to do this.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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