Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Sun, 20 Jul 2003 12:55:29 +0200 | From | Wichert Akkerman <> | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC] RMS and reactions to him |
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Previously Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: > It won't be the first disagreement. Debian actually was > poised to become *the* GNU distribution until they insisted on > carrying non-free software, when that was even more essential.
Please get your facts straight. Debian never insisted on carrying non-free software. There was disagreement over references to non-free software in Documentation. FSF would not allow documentation to mention the OSS drivers for example.
> Every so often this issue is raised again; presumably they will shed > non-free completely once a recent free version of Java 2, SWF player > and assorted stuff becomes available.
And perhaps not.
Wichert.
-- Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net> It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple.
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