Re: An ammendment (Re: Formal CFV: General Resolution to Abolish Non-Free)
By your argument, again, we ought to just allow everything in. This
is clearly not what Debian is about. We are about Free Software here,
folks. Allowing non-free does not increase net utility; it decreases
it. The greatest increase in net utility will come by promoting Free
Software rather than non-free software.
-- John
Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> writes:
> (Reformatted for clarity; debian-vote trimmed)
>
> John> What do we need a GR for this? What makes you think that there is
> John> utility in us actually providing it?
>
> Dirk> What makes *you* think there isn't? Nice "holier than you" attitude.
>
> John> Before you flame, perhaps we could get an answer. I don't see any
> John> need at all. It's already said in most cases, he's just rewording
> John> it.
>
> Maximising utility over a set will yield a result at least equal to the
> utility from maximising over a constrained subset of the full set. In other
> words, we cannot be worse off by allowing non-free in.
>
> Everybody not wearing your politically tainted glasses clearly sees the
> higher utility from being able to use non-free, if so desired. If our users
> don't want it, they don't use it. That ease. It's about choice, not
> totalitarian prescription.
>
> If you want a "politically correct" subset of Debian, go ahead and fork.
>
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