On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 04:31:29PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
> 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.
Removing non-free would:
1) narrow the focus of our labor
a) either by explicitly reducing the amount of work that is done to
maintain the non-free section; or
b) explicitly acknowledging what is tacitly understood, that the
non-free section is already a second-class citizen that enjoys
little in the way of QA
2) improve our détente with other members of the Free Software
community, particularly the Free Software Foundation; and
3) make us more coherent exemplars of a 100% Free operating system
(Whether people are likely to agree with 1a or 1b depends on how well
they think the non-free section is maintained and kept up at present.)
I acknowledge that some people don't feel any of the above goals are
worth pursuing -- but that doesn't mean that everyone does.
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