On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 03:32:22PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > 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. > > On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 03:01:06PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > 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 > > The potential gains here are negligible. > > It's kinda like eating a seven thousand calorie meal, then skipping > the after dinner mint because you're on a diet. "Eez only wafer-zin." "Oh, all right then." <boom> -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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