On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 03:14:49PM +0200, Kari Pahula wrote: > I would like to hear what the candidates think about the non-free > section. Is having it hosted on Debian's infrastructure still worth > it? Do you expect that there would be any changes regarding its > status during your term? Do you think that there are going to be > votes like http://www.debian.org/vote/2004/vote_002 again?
I expect there will be, yes. > A snapshot from http://www.debian.org/vote/2004/gr_non_free_tally.txt: > > Option 1---->: Choice 1: Cease active support of non-free [3:1 majority > needed] > / Option 2--->: Choice 2: Re-affirm support for non-free > |/ Option 3-->: Choice 3: Further Discussion > ||/ [...] > V: 312 wouter Wouter Verhelst > > Gustavo Franco wasn't a DD during this vote and Aigars Mahinov didn't > vote. The rest of you: would you still vote like you did in 2004, if > the issue was brought up again? Yes. I do not think it makes much sense to remove non-free as long as there still are non-free operating systems that have more mainstream support than Debian itself. It would simply push us into obscurity, which is not something I think we should aim for. If the situation wherein Windows has 90% of market share ever changes significantly enough for this to be possible (which I don't think will happen during the next decade or so), I might even second a vote to remove non-free; but before that time, I think removing non-free is premature. The fact that non-free isn't installed by default, however, is something I wholeheartedly support, and will continue to support. -- <Lo-lan-do> Home is where you have to wash the dishes. -- #debian-devel, Freenode, 2004-09-22 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
