Bart Martens <ba...@debian.org> writes: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 05:09:00PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> note that free software interfaces to proprietary cloud platforms are >> frequently used to manipulate the data in those platforms including >> pull data *out* of those platforms. It would be quite ironic if we >> refused to include in the distribution the tools required to pull one's >> data out of non-free platforms. > An interface to facebook or to twitter or to the internet movie database > or to websites with stock quotes may be freely redistributed but > "requires software outside of the distribution to function". Why do we > make exceptions depending on how "ironic" things are ? Because, similar to how all evil plans for taking over the world should be run past a fifth grader first, all grand principles of ideology should be checked for whether their actual outcomes are silly. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87vc8mqguw....@windlord.stanford.edu
