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Re: contrib/non-free policy

> >>"Shaya" == Shaya Potter <spotter@itd.nrl.navy.mil> writes:
> 
> Shaya> We are going to be compared on a feature by feature basis with
> Shaya> what other distributions provide their users, if we can't
> Shaya> provide programs like pine or Qt, even in a fashion which says
> Shaya> they aren't part of Debian, we are going to lose out on a lot
> Shaya> of users.  Many users don't care about the DFSG, all they care
> Shaya> about is if the CD comes with the software they want.
> 
> 	Again, please examine the goals of our project. Are we trying
>  to become number one? (Microsoft currently occupies that positin). Or
>  are we dedicated to free software? which way did we vote, a short
>  while ago?

We voted for the guidlines to discriminate software suitable for our
main distribution with tha aim to be portable, supprtable,
self-consistant, etc. 

We DID NOT vote to remove contrib from CD,
we did not vote to make life of our users harder,
to make them spend _more_ money either for commercial CD or for
ftp transfer. The ideology of neglecting current needs of people
in favor of "better" future has been proven to be wrong. 

I strongly oppose this decision and don't think that Debian community
can be just _informed_ about that.

Thank you.

Alex Y.

> 
> Shaya> Also, it seems a little hypocritical that we distribute all
> Shaya> this contrib software in an official manner through our network
> Shaya> of FTP mirrors, but that we can't put them on the CD.  It's one
> Shaya> thing if the software isn't freely distributable on CD, but if
> Shaya> it is, we should include it.
> 
> 	Ah, I see. A proposal t nuke the contrib and non-free areas on
>  our ftp site ;-)
> 
> 	manoj
> -- 
>  An A is easily obtained if a student calls his instructor
>  "Professor." Johnston
> Manoj Srivastava               <url:mailto:srivasta@acm.org>
> Mobile, Alabama USA            <url:http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/>
> 

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