Johnny A. Solbu a écrit :
On Tuesday 30 October 2012 09:37, Malo wrote:
- there is only faac, so why bother? (fuelling the first reason)
There is also another side to this, that we either haven't talked
about or doesn't know about. We are a Free software community, that
includes some nonfree software. (And therefore doesn't qualify as a
Free Software community according to some, but that's another
debate.) A part of beeing a Free software community is that we have a
preference as to what kind of software we are willing to work with.
That also means that there are software we are not willing to work
with.
We could decide that «patented nonfree software» doesn't belong in
our distribution.
That has been our temporary decision, to the best of my knowledge always
to be reviewed later.
But as we can see, many users want certain packages in this category, so
the topic keeps getting raised.
For myself, with a very strong preference for open source, I'm very
willing to accommodate those with a preference for certain non-free
software.
As well, there will always be proprietory software, particularly for
niche situations, which is not necessarily bad.
After all good ideas in proprietory software, which focuses on solving
real-world needs, can inspire a lot of good free software.
--
André
