[Please don't send me copies of messages to the list.] On 27-Jun-2006, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > What do you think of the suggestion made to draw lines similar to > those drawn by the Debian project: "free", "free but currently > depends on non-free", "non-free". > > A bad idea, since just like Debian, you end up recommending and > condoning non-free software by recommending businesses that perform > unethical practises.
I don't see how you make this connection. Why would a classification as I suggested necessarily "end up" as a recommendation? > This goes against the very core of what GNU is about: non-free > software is evil. I sympathise with this. The GBN, whatever its form, must always avoid promoting the restriction of software users. -- \ "My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. | `\ Unless there are three other people." -- Orson Welles | _o__) | Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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