On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 04:44:45PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote: > > 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.
Would it not be fairer to compare ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ with ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/gnu/ ? I see there's ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/non-free/ under the debian directory. I don't see such a directory under gnu. Are those two comparisons fair? Gareth
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