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I guess my concern is that Gentoo has struck an excellent |
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balance between keeping the free software philosophy and |
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making a distro that is usuable for cases when commerical |
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or non-free software has to be used. Now we have people |
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who want to Debianize Gentoo by at least forcing us to do |
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things to use "immoral licenses". If all the free |
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software people are so hot to worry about pure systems |
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then let them be the ones who have to do the work - don't |
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force it on us. If that's not acceptable then use Debian. |
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Having served my time as a windows |
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Admin/user/maintainer/etc I am a strong supporter of free |
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software but this inane insistance on creating a "pure |
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distro free from immoral licenses" is going to kill the |
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acceptance of Linux. People who have to make things work |
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aren't going to put up with it and will scratch distros |
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like that off the list of considerations. Do that to |
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Gentoo and a lot of users will find another distro. |
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So assume we make it so the rest of us have to do the work |
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to make Gentoo usable - will it stop with just having to |
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modify /etc/make.conf or once that is achieved what's next |
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- eliminate packages that are "immorally licensed" but are |
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necessary to make Gentoo usable because we don't believe |
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in the licenses . It appears choice is good except when |
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it doesn't agree with a political philosophy. |
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On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 03:40:15 +0000 |
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Luke-Jr <luke-jr@g.o> wrote: |
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>On Friday 28 November 2003 12:20 am, Brett I. Holcomb |
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>> But many others would and do accept them. You want us |
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>>to jump through |
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>> hoops to maintain what we have now so you don't have to. |
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>Adding a single line to make.conf is hardly jumping |
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>through hoops, especially |
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>considering that people should consider changes to |
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>make.conf when upgrading |
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>Portage anyway... |
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>Luke-Jr |
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>Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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>http://www.gentoo.org/ |
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