Marc Haber wrote: > On Sat, 01 Jun 2013 12:42:33 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > >What's the point in doing that work > >when, in the end, hardly anyone is using it? > > Freedom. It is not free to take away freedom just because too few > people have chosen to exercise freedom.
Why would kFreeBSD particularly matter for freedom? As opposed to any other random piece of software? Debian regularly removes old buggy packages that few people use. Are you saying that is wrong, and for the sake of freedom people should be given the ability to keep installing them even if few actually want to? If not, what makes kFreeBSD special so that it is more about "real freedom"? Do you claim that the existence of kFreeBSD is likely to somehow make the world a better place for someone in the long run? I myself believe that working on software that actually gets used is beneficial on average, while I think the world would be a better place if kFreeBSD had never been started at all - the negative effects on other Debian development outweight any benefits. Or is it about some ideal notion of "freedom" you have? I don't think anything in common free software philosophy at least would imply that kFreeBSD is important. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1370116640.3628.277.camel@glyph.nonexistent.invalid
