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Re: The "free" debate (again) <sigh>


On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Philip Hands wrote:

> > > Cost has got almost nothing to do with it --- M$ Internet Explorer is
> > > currently free of charge (until they kill Netscape with their monopolistic
> > > tactics), but I don't think that makes it qualify as freeware in any useful
> > > sense.
> > 
> > I would disagree.  It's useful in the free sense because it can be
> > distributed with other software and thus make a system more complete
> > by adding web browsing capability.
> 
> Are you seriously suggesting that if M$ came out with a for-no-money, binary 
> only, Linux port of Internet Explorer, that you would want to include it in 
> the main Debian distribution ?
> 

We couldn't put it in the free part because
1) it's not "free"
2) microsoft probably doesn;t allow redistribution.

However, we could make an installer for it, just like we have an installer
for netscape.

If microsoft does allow us to redistribute it, we can still only put it in
non-free, because it is still non-free.

Shaya


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