On Saturday 22 November 2003 07:43, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Saturday 22 November 2003 02:32, Jon Portnoy wrote: > > > 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.
As a Gentoo user/dev who has multiple deployments of Gentoo in a corporate environment, I would be highly pressed to look for an alternative distribution if non-free software was to be removed. I promote free software as much as I can, but I simply have to sometimes make the most economically sound choice. Think about the FSF's motive behind the creation of a Lesser GPL... to promote a more widespread use of the libraries vs. requiring code linked against it be freely available. I think some analogous ideas can be drawn here as well. Caleb -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
