Re: non-free and users?
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 10:50:33PM +0100, Sergey V. Spiridonov wrote:
> Raul Miller wrote:
> >If Linux were on the majority of all desktops, I might buy into the
> >idea that getting rid of non-free would benefit the majority of users.
> >But, right now, the so many users use stuff so much less free than our
> >"non-free" that that concept seems a bit silly.
>
> Is it very clever(ethical) to increase users dependency on non-free even
> more? Is it clever(ethical) to spend resources on non-free? Whith a
> little effort Debian can become the first free distibution in the world.
It already is.
> This will be a great day.
And, as non-free maintainer, i think i am free to spend my time as i
choose, thank you very much. Developer time is the only meaningfull
resource here, as it has already been said that non-free has a
negligible impact on the rest of debian's infrastructure.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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