On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 04:20:28PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 09:11:01AM -0500, Theodore Tso <ty...@mit.edu> wrote:
> > FSF), Dynebolic, Musix GNU+Linux, BLAG, and Trisquel. So not only is > > there one such distribution that takes free software of cardinal > > importance, there are six in the world already. Does Debian really > > need to be the seventh such distribution? > Except that none of these distros existed when Debian set the "100% free" > goal. Should it drop this goal now there are others such distros ? I don't > think so. Should it make it less important than in the past ? I don't > think either. Debian has always had a more relaxed view on these matters than the free software purists would like - things like providing contrib and non-free aren't entirely acceptable to them and are one of the reasons why people go to these other distributions with their stronger political focus. -- "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org