On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 00:43, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Wednesday 20 August 2003 00:34, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Le mar 19/08/2003 Ã 23:33, Mike Hommey a Ãcrit : > > > Ok, let's google a bit, and.... shazaam ! > > > http://www.linex.org/sources/linex/debian/linex/nvidia-glx_1.0.4349-1_i38 > > >6.deb Oh ! non-free software ! > > > > > > Thanks Richard for keeping me laughing. > > > > Bah, if RMS really didn't like non-free software, he would give up with > > that FDL stuff... > > Did he ever say he didn't like non-free _documentation_ ? > "The biggest deficiency in our free operating systems is not in the software--it is the lack of good free manuals that we can include in our systems. Documentation is an essential part of any software package; when an important free software package does not come with a good free manual, that is a major gap. We have many such gaps today.
"Free documentation, like free software, is a matter of freedom, not price. The criterion for a free manual is pretty much the same as for free software: it is a matter of giving all users certain freedoms. Redistribution (including commercial sale) must be permitted, on-line and on paper, so that the manual can accompany every copy of the program. "Permission for modification is crucial too." - Richard Stallman, 1998 Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist?
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