On 2004-01-02 18:47:50 +0000 Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Has someone asked you to create [or re-create] non-free?
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 09:09:04PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote: > You seemed to claim that supporters of this GR should do so before it > is passed. If that is incorrect, sorry but then it seems your messages > confused me. Here, you are talking about an example I gave, of how the social contract might be changed to get rid of non-free, in a useful fashion. That example was indeed a suggestion which would involve people creating some infrastructure for non-free. And, it was a part of a larger question (which, in essence, is: what are we doing to the users who currently depend on this software). But it's certainly not part of our current project. The best way to get rid of non-free would involve writing free replacements for all software in non-free. But that's a lot of work, and I am not going to insist on that people write any software. On the other hand, the recent proposals for getting rid of non-free appear to me as "solutions looking for a problem" rather than anything I'd want to see implemented. And it probably is the case that getting anything useful done would require some real effort. -- Raul