Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Ben, > > On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 09:17:56AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > Anything which we propose to distribute as part of Debian must > > follow the DFSG rules; otherwise, we violate our promises in the > > Social Contract. There's nothing special about the > > *vendor-intended use* of a collection of bits that exempts it from > > the standard that we apply to the rest of the operating system. > > I think you've made that point clear now, thanks.
I'd love it if that were true; then there wouldn't be fallacious statements about “everyone agrees some bitstreams are special, so deserve special standards of freedom”. -- \ “It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to | `\ persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.” —Carl | _o__) Sagan | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
