On Sunday 09 September 2007 19:19, David Given wrote: > Ben Finney wrote: > [...] > > > It would behoove you to at least put significant effort into > > what everyone here agrees would be the best way to get Opera working > > well with Debian and other free software operating systems. > > I'd take issue with that statement. Opera don't owe Debian anything; > they're packaging their software as Debian packages for their users, not > for us. If anything, they're doing us a favour by using our package format. > That's their right. It's their software, they own it, they can do whatever > they like with it. *We* get no say in that matter.
On the other hand, Opera isn't asked to make their browser free software _for Debian_, but for their users. Debian is not an end, but a means. -- Magnus Holmgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) "Exim is better at being younger, whereas sendmail is better for Scrabble (50 point bonus for clearing your rack)" -- Dave Evans
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