"Alfred M\. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [skip much] > > > Ok. Then the sentence makes even less sense, since manuals are > > > not software, they cannot be classifed as "non-free software", or > > > "free software". > > > So, we agree they are not free software, but for different reasons. > > To be precis, I'm not agreeing that they are not `free software'. > They are simply not software, period. Be it free, non-free, > propietary, etc. It is like calling a house for `non car', it isn't a > car to begin with...
It is perfectly true to say that a house is not a petrol car, if you don't think it's any sort of car. > > We should agree that debian is doing the right thing to uphold its > > promise of producing a 100% free software distribution and not > > apply higher standards to debian.org than gnu.org. The dispute is > > really that some want debian to change its promise, but that's > > happened for years, in different ways. > > Since Debian is not upholding that promise, I cannot agree with this. > I wish I could. Debian delivers on its promise: To get a 100% free software distribution from debian, get the official distribution by download or from any of the places listed on www.debian.org. You can't get a 100% free software distribution from GNU today. > > Would you praise debian if ftp.debian.org pointed at a mirror that > > doesn't carry any non-free software? > > Does or does not ftp.debian.org carry non-free software? Does or does > not ftp.gnu.org carry non-free software? > > Clearly, the answer is `Yes. No'. You are jumping into the realm of > itsy bitsy semantics. Nonsense. You're playing silly DNS configuration games. ftp.debian.org (aka debian-mirror.cs.umn.edu) and ftp.gnu.org are not equivalent. If you compared that debian mirror with the main GNU mirror (ibiblio), you'd see that both carry non-free software. -- MJ Ray - personal email, see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Work: http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ irc.oftc.net/slef Jabber/SIP ask _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
