I suppose I am dismayed that we are failing to promote free software over proprietary software.
We are promoting giving users a choice. What we are failing at is trying to force them into using free software.
Quick poll of people reading this thread: Would you like to see the removal of nonfree software from the tree? That means things like vmware, the java packages, etc.
Or perhaps someone should start a poll in the forums in Gentoo Chat about it.
Much as I'm an advocate of free, open software - I'm also an advocate of choice. I'm also practical; I firmly believe in using the tool that does the job. There are just some applications where free/open software hasn't matured enough to be used in, eg, enterprise or even small business (or, for that matter, on the desktop).
I'd rather be able to use the proprietary software until the f/o stuff is mature enough for me to take the leap. Not everybody has the time to debug all of their software packages for several weeks before they can get full use out of it.
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