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Re: non-free and users?



On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 12:45:57AM +0100, Sergey V. Spiridonov wrote:
> 
> I sincerely apologize for those who think, that my opinion is offending.
> I understand that my English is far from perfect and I can be wrong with 
> calling what is happening unethical (yes, I call *some* actions 
> unethical). I was free to select another word for this, like not 
> consequent or irrational which are very close in this case. I selected 
> the word unethical because I think, that acting on the most possible 
> high ethical level all the time is very important for Debian, since his 
> aim is very ethical.
> Anyway, I just can repeat, that each and every developer of Debian works 
> on the very high ethical level (regardless of the licence of his 
> package). Doing sometimes small unethical(in my opinion) actions does 
> not make anyone and Debian unethical.

Ok, apologizes accepted, but i still think that your argumentation is
wrong.

You are claiming that the act of distributing non-free can cause a
problem for someone, while i really don't see how someone having access
to a non-free package from debian that he can either not modify or not
distribute is worse in any way than not getting access to said package.

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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