On Sat, 2013-06-01 at 22:57 +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote: > Marc Haber wrote: > > On Sat, 01 Jun 2013 12:42:33 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > > <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Why would kFreeBSD particularly matter for freedom? As opposed to any > other random piece of software? > > Debian regularly removes old buggy packages that few people use. Are you > saying that is wrong, and for the sake of freedom people should be given > the ability to keep installing them even if few actually want to? If > not, what makes kFreeBSD special so that it is more about "real > freedom"? Both kFreeBSD and Hurd have contributed to multiple upstreams suddenly realizing they are creating buggy and non-portable software. This is a very important issue wrt software quality, and should be counted as one major reason to continue to support non-linux systems. Additionally, Debian is about software freedom, not about lock-in of customers as for commercial vendors. Debian is promoting software freedom, if they stopped doing that then the whole idea of Debian would be lost (and should be discontinued, letting RedHat, Ubuntu, et al take over the whole (Linux) market). Plan9 and minix go away, you are only clutter ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1370122675.6337.14.camel@PackardBell-PC