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Re: [gNewSense-users] Re: Wikipedia
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Matthew Flaschen |
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Re: [gNewSense-users] Re: Wikipedia |
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Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:57:10 -0400 |
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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
Re: [gNewSense-users] Wikipedia, Guy Johnston, 2007/06/19
- [gNewSense-users] Re: Wikipedia, Yavor Doganov, 2007/06/19
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Re: Wikipedia, Matthew Flaschen, 2007/06/19
- [gNewSense-users] Re: Wikipedia, Yavor Doganov, 2007/06/19
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Re: Wikipedia, Matthew Flaschen, 2007/06/19
- [gNewSense-users] Re: Wikipedia, Yavor Doganov, 2007/06/19
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Re: Wikipedia,
Matthew Flaschen <=
- [gNewSense-users] Re: Wikipedia, Yavor Doganov, 2007/06/19
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Re: Wikipedia, Matthew Flaschen, 2007/06/19
Re: [gNewSense-users] Re: Wikipedia, Karl Goetz, 2007/06/23
Re: [gNewSense-users] Re: Wikipedia, Brian Brazil, 2007/06/24
[gNewSense-users] Re: Wikipedia, Yavor Doganov, 2007/06/25
Re: [gNewSense-users] Re: Wikipedia, Paul O'Malley, 2007/06/25
[gNewSense-users] Re: Wikipedia, Yavor Doganov, 2007/06/26
Re: [gNewSense-users] Re: Wikipedia, Romel Sandoval, 2007/06/27
Re: [gNewSense-users] Re: Wikipedia, Brian Brazil, 2007/06/27
[gNewSense-users] I concur with the effort to become and remain free., J.B. Nicholson-Owens, 2007/06/25