On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 03:13:44AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >>"Branden" == Branden Robinson <branden@ecn.purdue.edu> writes: > Branden> That's almost exactly what this proposal aims to do. As it > Branden> stands we pay a contribute a significant portion of our > Branden> resources to the upkeep of non-free software. > > we pay a contribute a significant? I noticed that after I mailed it, but decided not to make a one-line post to redact two words that any commonsensical reader would mentally excise anyway. Perhaps my analysis was flawed. s/pay a// > Please, let the maintainers of the non-free stuff be the only > ones who spend time on this; the rest of us can just ignore that > bit. I would certainly say that non-free software should not feature > in releases, not caoulkt it have RC bugs, since it is not part of our > distribution, and this is not released. All of the above can certainly be just as true with non-free outside project as within in. > Or are you taling about disk and bandwidth issues? non-free is > really dwarfed by the main distribution; and the added burdens are, > IMHO, more than offset by the added value they bring to Debian (yes, > non free software can have value) You admit that this is a matter of opinion. Certainly we contribute resources. Whether they're significant or not depends, I guess, on your assessment of the value of disk space, bandwidth, and developer effort. -- G. Branden Robinson | Damnit, we're all going to die; let's Debian GNU/Linux | die doing something *useful*! branden@ecn.purdue.edu | -- Hal Clement, on comments that space roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | exploration is dangerous
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