On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 10:15:34AM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: > > > At the Q&A following his lecture in Chicago on Halloween, 2001, RMS > > > mentioned a problem he had just found out about at the time--Debian's > > > different (I believe RMS used the term "weaker" which may be more > > > appropriate) standard of free software compelled the FSF to make their own > > > version of -something-. > > > Yes, it is a serious problem for the FSF. > > It would be interesting to know what the exact problem in case is. It > is well known the RMS does not sympathize with the existence of the > non-free and contrib parts of the archive - but this has been well > known indeed for several years now, and cannot be the thing that, > supposedly, just suddenly turned up during last fall.
Upon re-reading your mail I don't feel I exactly answered your question, although I hope you find my reply an interesting read anyway. One thing RMS thought for some time was that the Debian GNU/Hurd is independant from Debian GNU/Linux in its choice of packages and policy. Our infrastructure doesn't even give us the option for that (otherwise we could at least kick out that obnoxious makedev_all.deb ;) Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de
