Marco d'Itri wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: <snip>
>>What we put in "main" carries our imprimatur, whether we like it or not. >>While it is true that we have qualified reservations about all sorts of >>things in main, and these are frequent fodder for discussions on -legal >>and occasionally other mailing lists, I believe it is also true that when >>we >>put something in "main", we endorse it. (We certainly pledge to provide >>security updates for it.) > Can you find *any* user in the whole life of the project who did > seriously believe that we should provide for the sourceless firmwares > which we have been distributing more support than we can do? Actually, I do recall a person complaining about lack of support for some fancy feature of his network card -- it turned out to be a firmware bug, and it happened to be loadable firmware. He still felt that it was Debian's responsibility to fix it because it "worked under Windows". I am never going to be able to find the reference though; it's only one person. > Unless you can find a reasonale number of people believing this then it > is false. One is not a reasonable number, of course, but I thought you might be interested in the anecdote. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bush admitted to violating FISA and said he was proud of it. So why isn't he in prison yet?... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
