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Offering a choice was always a very important thing in Gentoo. |
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Forcing the user into freesoftware will only make them switch. |
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The people who like that zealotery already use Debian anyway. |
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The choice is the most important thing for me. |
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Personaly i hate closed source stuff installed on my machine. |
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I dislike Nvidias binary only drivers and would never buy |
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hardware which requires me to use proprietary software. |
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That's my personal choice and not a reason to suggest ripping |
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out Nvidia drivers from Gentoo. The user should have the choice |
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to use it or not. |
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On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 01:06:05AM -0600, Matthew Kennedy wrote: |
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> Sven Vermeulen <swift@g.o> writes: |
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> > On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 09:16:19AM -0600, Matthew Kennedy wrote: |
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> >> Personally, I am only interested in supporting and using free |
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> >> software, so... |
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> >> |
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> >> The best solution is just to remove support for anything non-free in |
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> >> portage and to also remove any non-free software from our mirrors. |
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> >> Let some other external project step up to the plate and provide a |
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> >> non-free overlay if they wish. |
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> > I disagree. Give the users who want the chance to not use "non-free" |
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> > software, but also give the others the chance to use non-free software. |
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> > I think you'll get a lot of gamers against you when you tell them you don't |
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> > want them to easily install their favorite non-free game :) |
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> [...] |
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> Jon, Sven, |
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> Obviously, its more important that the "gamers" are not upset by a |
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> single line change in make.conf. The principle of building a Free |
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> software distribution has got to be less important than that. |
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> Seriously though, it is my impression that you may be surprised how |
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> many folks care that their box uses free software only. You might |
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> want to check the Debian news out of late. There's a proposal to do |
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> away with(?) non-free in their distro (ie. clause 5. in their social |
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> contract would be removed). |
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> I suppose I am dismayed that we are failing to promote free software |
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> over proprietary software. |
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> Matt |
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> Matthew Kennedy |
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> Gentoo Linux Developer |
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