Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > about a year ago, seems to be bolstered by its supporters with two > mutually exclusive arguments: > > 1. It will have minimal effects since people will still be able to use > non-free software. > > 2. It will have far-reaching effects since Debian (the corporate > entity) will expend fewer resources in support of people wanting to > use non-free software.
I do not make the case for #2. In fact, I don't thik I've seen anyone make that case. > isn't really the case since the most likely result of a dropping of > non-free will be a "grey zone" of debs from random sources, a la RPM There's nothing stopping people from taking the current non-free and maintaining it. > I'm really rather surprised that people who don't do anything with > non-free packages are burdened by their presence. The incremental > cost of maintaining the BTS and other tools (lintian reports, etc.) > for a few dozen packages can't be all that high. I submit that it's If you would, please reread my proposal. I am not proposing it because of the use of our resrouces, which is, as you say, not that high.
