Re: one of the many reasons why removing non-free is a dumb idea
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 00:16, John Goerzen wrote:
> Indeed. Let us do a service for our users and provide them with only
> the software that they can legally use, modify, distribute, and hack on,
> together with documentation that meets those criteria.
This is just silly! Software without the documentation is not really
usable. You are plainly saying that we should cease to make this
documentation available to users because it will make Debian impure. I
do not see any proposal for replacing it (nor would such a proposal be
at all realistic). This is not keeping the promise we made and it is
not in the interests of our users.
I do not share your absolutist ideas about DFSG purity. Inconveniencing
users because you want to be purer than FSF is a ridiculous position.
You would make Debian as irrelevant as all the splinter socialist
parties there used to be 30 years ago (maybe they are still around),
condemning each other for slight differences of doctrine and having no
effect at all on political life.
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