Re: non-free and users?

["Sergey V. Spiridonov" <sena@hurd.homeunix.org>]

Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 04:11:36AM +0100, Sergey V. Spiridonov wrote:
>
> > > Well, that's nice, but it's not the question at issue. If we could replace
> > > all the non-free software people might want to use with free software,
> > > we'd be happy to. Our choice is to distribute non-free software, or
> > > not. The free software we distribute isn't affected _at all_.
> >
> > If there will be no more free software to package and no work to do with
> > current software packages and Debian itself, you will be abolutely
> > right. It is not the case.
>
> Again, that is simply not the choice we have. If we had mind control rays
> that could make people who were working on non-free software start working
> on free software, great. But that's not what we've got. We've got people
> who want to work on non-free software, whose work we can either accept,
> or not.

I do not think that you or me have any control  rays or dictator power
over developers or non-developers. I think you have complete power
over what *you* are doing. I have control over what I am doing. I do not
think we should use mind control rays to be able to dictate everone to
distribute what we want them to distribute. Doesn't matter free or
non-free.

> You're welcome to keep ignoring this, especially since you don't seem
> to be a contributor to Debian, but it really is a fundamental point.

Did I dictate you to drop non-free or to force everyone to distribute
non-free? I do not remember something like this.
--
Best regards, Sergey Spiridonov