Jean-Christophe Dubacq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My point is: do what Debian must, but do not consider breaking > commercial software lightly, and do not think that freedom is all what > is required by some well-known target audience such as universities. > Tolerance is as great a value (in some contexts).
It's even in our constitution that our priorities are *both* our Users and Free Software, and it's in the first clause that "We will support people who create or use both free and non-free works on Debian." There might be technical problems, which should be named, discussed and resolved - but I think it's beyond doubt that we will not intentionally drop support for things like Maple. Or even Mathematica, which approximately 20 years of development ahead of Maple ;-) Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
