ben <[email protected]> wrote .. > > You'll have to be active to put non-free software on your computer. And you > do it consciously by activating a non-free repo, which is clearly marked as > non-free. > > I don't want to argue that it is sufficient. But it is definitely more > than you say. It'll also - and in particular - be big help for gns. > > You say that it is still easy to install non-free software on debian. > yeah, right, but with the same ease you can install the same software on > gns. and that doesn't make gns non-free. > > there was a discussion about deltas to take care off. this is a big > delta less. so it's a big step forward.
Thank you. Evaluating the impact on gNewSense was beyond the scope of my email. I only wanted something out there for those that see this & think that Debian is now free as of Squeeze (there are already many who think that the only problem with Debian is the kernel.) IIRC, non-free is activated by default unless you run the installer in Expert mode, in which case it asks if it should be enabled or not. Either way, there's a big difference, IMHO, between the user deciding to install non-free software on their own accord versus, for example, the computer software (or the distro's own documentation) asking if they want to use it.
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