Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Talking about non-free software on the list

[roy evison]

Dear all,

 

>I of course meant “… Debian should not support non‐free software …” 

What do you think Debian should be doing, you could choose other OS's? Surely you pick which non-free software you want from Debian and you look at the pros and cons? Is not choice and user control pre-eminant? 

Roy. 

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Simon Ward

Sent: 02/22/13 09:00 AM

To: address@hidden

Subject: Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Talking about non-free software on the list

 

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 09:41:10PM +0000, Simon Ward wrote: 
> The point is that Debian should not support free software if it wants 

I of course meant “… Debian should not support non‐free software …” 

> free software advocates to promote it as a free software distribution. 
> If it wants to continue supporting non-free software, that's fine, I 
> won't support it as a free software distribution (and the FSF is less 
> likely to than I am). 

Simon 
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