wording (xv vs free software)

Disclaimer: I'm not sure about if the GR is good/bad for advocating free software. I'm still thinking. And I un-carefully deleted a mesg that I want to reply, thus I got a such subject here. 8) My uncertainty on my belief on debian's belief on free software is arised while following the th

Re:Re: General Resolution: Removing non-free

>>>>>> " " == truename <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > [snip] >>> I too would be forced to use another dist if the non-free >>> software was no longer maintained by debian. > > > this is wrong.

Re: why not replace individual programs?

>On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 04:13:08PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote: >> > " " == Christian Surchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> As a conclusion one can only say, we need non-free. > >no matter how some people do not like the idea, you are right surely we need it. if we don't need a cc wh

Re: General Resolution: Removing non-free

[snip] >I too would be forced to use another dist if the non-free software was no >longer maintained by debian. this is wrong. Redhat only have ONE cd as their well-organized distro, other packages are added by others (even w/o a policy for quality), while Debian, even the GR passed, coul

Re:Re: Some more reality..

[snip] >> reason alone. In particular I'd like to see a little consideration for >> some of the more diverse groups that are serviced by non-free [anyone else >> notice how many Asian fonts are in there?]. [snip] >For the record, the most of Japanese fonts related packages are >DFSG c