On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 01:37:04AM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > it seems like a nice initiative... the only 'principle' helding > me is this one: > > "We assert that Open Source and Proprietary models can be used together > effectively. A number of our companies deploy software under the GPL > license and proprietary software in the same product." > > I think DFSG's last paragraph makes us supporters of this 'principle', > though.
You mean the Social Contract's last paragraph? I don't think it's the same: we reluctantly acknowledge that some users "require the use of" non-free programs, i.e. they are forced by circumstance to make an inferior choice, and we're willing to support them in that. In addition, our non-free section is still much more free than the "proprietary software" referred to here. We're not distributing anything with a Microsoft EULA on it. > The page lists only 2 supporters up to now: Bruce Perens himself and > Lindows.com. So I guess "a number of our companies" is 1 out of 1 :-) > What does the Debian Project thinks about this? I'm actually more concerned about this article: Freedom to Set Policy Individual users, businesses, and government should all be free to set their own policies regarding what sorts of software they will acquire and use. They should not force their policies upon others. I have no idea what they mean with this. Any meaning I can think of is already covered by one of the other articles. What kind of "force their policies" is deprecated here? If I say, "I will only work for organizations that endorse free software", would I be in conflict with this article? -- Richard Braakman "I sense a disturbance in the force" "As though millions of voices cried out, and ran apt-get." (Anthony Towns about the Debian 3.0 release)