Re: What it means to be Debian

From	Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.project
Subject	Re: What it means to be Debian
Date	2015-06-16 22:00 +0200
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On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 06:24:09PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > Mostly, I *personally* do not find those people authentic enough to
> > > uphold any such community standard. It's somewhat like donating to a
> > > species conservation organisation, taking the money from a purse made of
> > > crocodile skin. It's quite impossible to take it seriously.
> > Debian isn't advertised as a distribution whose main goal is to provide
> > 100% free something while not providing anything non-free,
> [...]
> 
> Yeah it's such a minor goal that it's the first point of the Social
> Contract.
I'll quote it:

"We will support people who create or use both free and non-free works on
Debian."

That is not the same as what I wrote but what I meant was we don't say
things like "our community must actively reject the non-free counterparts"
or "we will not distribute, recommend, or otherwise support non-free
software", as some other distributions do.

-- 
WBR, wRAR

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    Re: What it means to be Debian Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2015-06-16 19:30 +0200
      Re: What it means to be Debian Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org> - 2015-06-16 22:00 +0200
    Re: What it means to be Debian Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2015-06-16 19:50 +0200
    Re: What it means to be Debian Zlatan Todoric <zlatan@riseup.net> - 2015-06-16 20:50 +0200
      Re: What it means to be Debian Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org> - 2015-06-16 22:10 +0200
      Re: What it means to be Debian Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> - 2015-06-16 22:30 +0200

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