Hello Sam, On Wed, 06 Jul 2011 20:51:50 +0200 Sam Geeraerts <sam...@elmundolibre.be> wrote:
> > Non-free software "should be discouraged if someone brings them up." > > All right, but in case of many new users or a high-traffic forum a > > small team wouldn't be able to discourage every reference to non-free > > software because of their limited resources. > > In case of many new users I would first of all get suspicious. It means > you either excel at marketing (in which case you're welcome to do the > same trick for gNewSense ;) ) or you suck at it and nobody knows that > the distro is supposed to be fully free. Well, I don't know if I am good at marketing or if I suck. I get constantly new users, some are blaming me for using linux-libre because their hardware won't work. Some are requesting that I use the "vanilla" kernel. I regularly respond to such posts, pointing them to h-node.com and try to explain why it is important to use free and avoid non-free software. Some people understand this, but some are not. Well, I heard rumors that there might be a external NON-FSDG repo or even a NON-FSDG fork in the planning. If it will happen I have no means or the will to stop it. It is free software, after all. But: I regularly read the suggestion "use non-free" at Debian help forums. How can I respond to the same suggestion from arbitrary users posting at the forum? > Or not, and then your community implodes and all your > worries are over. :) Let's hope not ...