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Re: [gNewSense-users] Re: Wikipedia
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Matthew Flaschen |
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Re: [gNewSense-users] Re: Wikipedia |
Date: |
Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:06:21 -0400 |
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Yavor Doganov wrote:
> If we (we == people supporting gNS) do not distinguish between users
> that match this criteria and users that just came upon this "Linux"
> (sic) distribution because it's popular or blessed by FSF or whatever
> -- we will lose at the end.
It currently seems likely that gNewSense will remain unpopular simply
because it doesn't use the most recent free software.
>> And I don't think there is any intention to develop packages
>> specifically for gNewSense.
>
> I find your lack of faith disturbing. There is intention, there is
> hope, there is much more than any of these combined.
The maintainers have indicated (if I understand correctly) that they are
not accepting additional official packages, but that they will recommend
community repositories that are actively maintained. I see little
reason that people shouldn't submit new free programs to Debian and wait
for it to propagate down. In no way does that require reliance on
unfree software.
> Am I the only one who considers the LACK of a constantly,
> independently, stream-developed, entirely free GNU/Linux distribution
> a total general failure, a core dump of the so called "free software
> community"? The current state of affairs is humiliating for me.
It is a failure, but not a critical one because it is still possible to
use entirely free software.
Matt Flaschen
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Wikipedia, (continued)
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Wikipedia, Guy Johnston, 2007/06/19
- [gNewSense-users] Re: Wikipedia, Yavor Doganov, 2007/06/19
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Re: Wikipedia, Matthew Flaschen, 2007/06/19
- [gNewSense-users] Re: Wikipedia, Yavor Doganov, 2007/06/19
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Re: Wikipedia,
Matthew Flaschen <=
- [gNewSense-users] Re: Wikipedia, Yavor Doganov, 2007/06/19
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Re: Wikipedia, Matthew Flaschen, 2007/06/19
- [gNewSense-users] Re: Wikipedia, Yavor Doganov, 2007/06/19
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Re: Wikipedia, Matthew Flaschen, 2007/06/19
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Re: Wikipedia, Karl Goetz, 2007/06/23
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Re: Wikipedia, Brian Brazil, 2007/06/24
- [gNewSense-users] Re: Wikipedia, Yavor Doganov, 2007/06/25
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Re: Wikipedia, Paul O'Malley, 2007/06/25
- [gNewSense-users] Re: Wikipedia, Yavor Doganov, 2007/06/26
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Re: Wikipedia, Romel Sandoval, 2007/06/27