Yavor Doganov wrote: >> I see little reason that people shouldn't submit new free programs >> to Debian and wait for it to propagate down. > > Really? If you are maintaining a program that is part of the GNU > Project, would you feel comfortable seeing it in Debian crippled?
Can you give examples of this type of crippling? > And then arriving, after an unknown period, to gNewSense, passing through > Ubuntu, crippled in the same way? Ubuntu doesn't modify most debian packages at all. As for an "unknown period", that's a (serious) fault of gNewSense, not Ubuntu. >> It is a failure, but not a critical one because it is still possible to >> use entirely free software. > > Certainly it is possible -- it is possible with Debian, Fedora, > Gentoo, etc. The question is how we educate the users. If the > community, on a general basis, decides that non-free software is an > integral part of every significant distribution -- that clearly is a > failure that cannot be corrected by Builder. It can be corrected if > we BUILD the whole thing matching the values and the standpoint of our > Movement and the ideals we fight for. I agree. The ideals should be paramount. Matt Flaschen _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
