On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 02:47:34 +0000, "Brian M. Carlson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 08:15:56AM +0900, Oohara Yuuma wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 20:00:10 +0000, > > "Brian M. Carlson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Debian should not be using non-free software on its own > > > systems. > > Debian Project is not FSF. > The Debian Project is not the Free Software Foundation, I agree. But they > both stand for Free Software. If Debian uses non-free software, it looks > like it is just paying lip service to the Social Contract. "We want to > make a free Unix, but we don't want to use it." I don't think Debian must avoid non-free software at any cost, but I agree that free software is better than non-free software, so if the sysadmin wants to spend hours or days to replace qmail with some free MTA, I don't care.
> > > "Debian Will Remain 100% Free Software" > > I think this Debian means the Debian distribution, not a specific > > Debian machine. > Perhaps it could be interpreted that way. The word "Debian" alone is > somewhat ambiguous. English tends to have that quality. I really want to see the definition of "Debian" and "Software" here. -- Oohara Yuuma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian developer PGP key (key ID F464A695) http://www.interq.or.jp/libra/oohara/pub-key.txt Key fingerprint = 6142 8D07 9C5B 159B C170 1F4A 40D6 F42E F464 A695 Better just encrypt it all in your head :-). --- Derrick 'dman' Hudson, about encryption without any physical medium
