It was difficult for me not to quote your text. It was really tempting! ;-)
Be that as it may, you perfectly summarized the discussion.
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Nikos
seful, as many people said.
In conclusion, you didn't convince me, but I better understand your package
approval's policy. I learned a lot about your open-source philosophy, about
the Gutenberg project (I never heard of it before, although I spend many
time on the web and particularly on the "open-source" web). The Debian
Social Contract is still my model in open-source philosophy, and I learned
a lot in english discussing like this!
You see, we can agree with each other!
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Nikos
es), and that's not the duty of an operating sytem.
> (By the way, please wrap your lines at about 70 characters, and use
> a mailer that preserves threading information. Your mails are painful
> to read and reply to.)
I'm sorry. I've corrected the problem.
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Nikos
y are debated about in
> -devel during an ITP as to whether or not they are truly useful. If
> they're both Free and useful, they are allowed in
I precisely think that they aren't useful to an operating system...
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th every web browser.
> And having them in Debian means that I can just do an apt-get install,
> instead of hunting through thousands of results on google.
I typed "king james bible" in Google and hit "I'm feeling lucky". I was
browsing the text 1 second later...
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Nikos
there are fortunately, and thanks to the large and democratic
decisional structure of Debian, no xenophobic packages in it.
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Nikos
> Greetings,
> Would you prefer the Torah, the Koran, or perhaps the Apocrypha? I'm sure
> we could get volunteers to package those as well.
>
> Hmmm?
No, that's not the main problem. As I already said, I think such texts have
nothing to do in an operating system.
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Hello,
> All the dictionary packages are not technical documentation and
> don't correspond to open source philosophy. And all the linux
> gazette packages, there are others too...
Apart from the three packages I've quoted before, all the doc packages are
technical ones or correspond to open sou
ur comments and answers.
Nikos
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