On Saturday 26 March 2005 20:25, David Nusinow wrote: > On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 03:59:49PM +0000, Henning Makholm wrote: > > Scripsit Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 05:37:02PM +0000, Henning Makholm wrote: > > >> Do you have any arguments for this that do *not* basically reason > > >> backwards from "we want this stuff to be in main, freedoms or not"? > > > > > > Well, I would start with "we want this stuff in main" and work from > > > there; > > > > See? There you go. > > I have a hard time believing that this is a fundamentally wrong approach to > take.
Wait until someone comes along and wants to modify the DFSG to allow M$ Office into main, "because we want this stuff in main." <soapbox>We have main for those things which are DFSG-free and non-free for the things redistributable but not-DFSG-free and there are people who rely on this distinction. Regards, David -- - hallo... wie gehts heute? - *hust* gut *rotz* *keuch* - gott sei dank kommunizieren wir über ein septisches medium ;) -- Matthias Leeb, Uni f. angewandte Kunst, 2005-02-15