Steve Langasek wrote: > "Our priorities are our users and Free Software" means that, in our decision making and our governance we should be oriented FIRST towards users and do what is good for the people who are using our software; and that our SECOND priority, only when not in conflict in the first, is to promote Free Software.
I agree with your message generally, and this might be only a minor point -- but as I read that sentence, it doesn't say that our users come FIRST and free software comes SECOND. To me, it says that we have two priorities, with no particular ranking specified between them. The order in which they are listed doesn't necessarily imply a ranking and I don't think that was intended. Of course software is only useful as long as it has users, so it may be argued that users are "more important". But what you say seems to go quite further than that. If users' needs have higher priority and free software counts "only when not in conflict", then why isn't Debian shipping non-free drivers? Gerardo
