On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 10:40:41PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > s/refused/discouraged/ and I would agree. Isn't the goal of Debian > providing a free system so users don't have to run any non-free > software anymore? IMHO the "we support non-free software" clause was
I think this is one of the goals of Debian. And in cases where there
is free software that works good enough I will use it. But sometimes
there is only non-free software for a task or the non-free program is
a lot better than the free one.
In such cases I sometimes decide to run the non-free tool if it saves
me some time. After all I want to get my job done and I want to have
some time left for leisure or for working on stuff like free software.
Like you I want other people to use free software as well because then
I hope not being asked about those silly opaque problems in proprietary
programs anymore. But I am not going to attack anybody because he
likes the proprietary stuff better, not even if it is extreme silly to
do so. If somebody tells me about yet another Outlook problem I will
just smirk and go on to the next email.
Thanks
Torsten
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