On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 03:47:12AM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: > This is a valid point and regardless of the outcome of this resolution I > am almost insistant that we should also resolve to make the Social > Contract and DFSG require a 3:1 vote to alter, just like the constitution > on the grounds that they are just as fundamental (if not moreso) to the > project and should not be tampered with lightly.
I agree. Actually, I'm tempted to push for making the Social Contract and DFSG require a 4:1 vote to alter. And, once that's done, I'd be happy to vote in favor of this change in the social contract. [I think we should work at supporting a bigger variety of non-free software, which means getting it off our plate and onto the plates of others. The way things are now, we're standardizing on certain kinds of non-free software, and -- much as I might like using some of that software -- I think that's a mistake.] [[I'd also recommend that the maintainers of non-free software put together some sort of non-debian mirror archive to distribute their packages.]] [[[One final thing: I don't think we can prevent mirror operators from hosting both kinds of software. But I don't think there should be any kind of consistent link from the free to the non-free stuff. Such a link encourages the wrong kind of standardization, in my opinion.]]] -- Raul
