Re: The "Free" vs. "Non-Free" issue
> > On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 04:06:15PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> > > Why this is all nice and true, I fail to see the point why the
> > > documentation absolutely needs to be on an APT source with
> > > debian.org in it.
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 11:53:17AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
> > "Absolutely needs" is a straw man argument.
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 06:02:56PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> Sheesh, then read the sentence without it already.
That sentence still a strawman argument without "absolutely": "needs to
be on an APT source with debian.org in it" is a strawman argument as well.
That sentence doesn't make grammatical sense without "needs".
Are you trying to get me to agree that alternative mechanisms are viable?
I could agree that there is no need to install debian at all -- a network
developer could instead install gentoo, and instead of typing
apt-get install doc-rfc
they could type
wget -r -np http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc-index.html
But the question being addressed was about usefulness, not about need.
Which is why need -- and, especially, absolute need -- is a strawman
argument.
--
Raul
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