On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 06:58:12AM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > We find (found) ourselves at an impasse, where no actual work can get > done. The work of maintaining non-free outside of Debian *needs* to be > done by those who want to keep non-free in Debian. But they aren't > going to do it while non-free is in Debian.
I understand that you feel like this situation with non-free is something of a Gordian knot. And, I understand that you feel that the vote itself will help us decide what it is that we want to do. Also, I think the fact that there is no rationale for your "drop non-free" proposal says a bit more the real state of affairs. It may be that any rationale would harm the chances that your proposal would pass -- is that really the case? [If so, I'm even more dissapointed that you haven't provided a rationale.] However, if the point of this vote is "to decide what it is that we want to do", then I think we'd be better served with a rationale for your proposal. -- Raul