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Re: Proposal: Keep non-free



On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:33:44AM +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
> On 2004-02-24 03:57:55 +0000 Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 01:17:13AM +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
> >>As you write it, this is an unreasonable demand: who judges it?
> >"who judges" is a trivially easy question to answer: "we all do".  
> >when no
> >debian developer can be bothered producing a non-free package, that's
> >sufficient proof that there is no more need for non-free packages.
> 
> I already dealt with that unreasonable position in another email.
> 
> >btw, it's not at all unreasonable to expect uninvolved third-parties 
> >(i.e. you
> >bigots) to mind their own business.
> 
> It's not at all unreasonable to expect you pro-non-free bigots to shut 
> up and let us actually use the decision process we have, instead of 
> saying "don't mention the non-free. I did once, but I think I got away 
> with it." If you still want to package or use non-free, then express 
> your view. If the decision goes against you, maintain it some place 
> else. Quit trying to sabotage the project by insisting we must 
> irrationally keep non-free after its support has waned too much.

Well, let's see how the vote will go out, though it seems that by
counting the seconds on aj's proposal and the seconds on the remove
non-free one, that there is little doubt left on the outcome of that.

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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