On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 01:49:09PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 10:14:22AM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: > > I think a lot of people here are losing sight of the fact that many people use > > Debian, not mainly because it's free software, but because things are done The > > Right Way(tm) around here. In other words, many users, and developers alike, > > although interested in the prospect of a completely free operating system, do > > not want it forced on them when it is not practical. The more difficult it > > becomes to use Debian in practical situations, the less likely someone is to > > use Debian. > > I get tired of hearing this argument. Using this goal, we might aswell > start doing Debian/Windows and make it really easy. The whole idea behind > Linux is to do things right. Switching to Linux is already asking people > to do things the free way, and not the commercial way. Pointing out > special cases within that scope is incorrect justification for what we do. Dwayne has a point there, enforcing something free choices is almost the same as enforcing to use non-free.. we are always free to download free software to non-free platforms, but why would we it's much easier to get the non-free solutions... the non-free software has it's good sides, also as someone listed in this thread already the packages that are mostly in use from non-free, the list included quake, one which i keep installed at all times (you never know when someone comes up an challenges you) if it wasn't a .deb i wouldn't install it. i'm lazy i admit it. the other option would be to create a generic installer for the non-free software, which makes it as easy as apt-get install <name>... Regards, Sami Haahtinen
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