"Joe Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Anthony Towns" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> >>The middle one's the one of interest, it's expressed in the first point >>of the social contract as: >> >> "We will never make the system require the use of a non-free >> component." >> >>(For reference, that replaced the following text from v1.0 of the social >>contract: >> >> "[...] we will never make the system depend on an item of non-free >> software." >>) >> > > [blink]! > > Clearly we cannot possibly be upholding that statement. There is > simply no computer > of fully free hardware and software. Even if there were, I'm betting > Debian would require > extensive modifications to run on it.
In my view the unavalability of a free alternative does not create a dependency on a non-free component. Only if Debian would require a specific non-free BIOS for example I would regard that as a dependency. That your hardware (or mine) requires a BIOS (or firmware) for which there is no free alternative does not make Debian depend on it, IMHO. Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
