-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Anthony Fok wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 01:33:47PM +0200, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: > > > > I contacted washington.edu and they really do not want binaries to be > > distributed if they do not "approve" the patches *first*. > > > > If we do not have the freedom to apply whatever patches we like, including > > security or bug fixes, without an approval from the University of > > Washington, then we will have to distribute the patches without the > > binaries. > > I wonder: Could we all band together and complain *loudly* but *politely*? > ;-) This is very very frustrating, and it is giving both Pine and Debian a > bad reputation. Not Debian, because Debian is a free software Linux distribution, and pine is non-free. This is like saying that not having Microsoft Word as part of Debian is giving both Microsoft and Debian a bad reputation ;-) It could give "bad reputation" on the eyes of those who think that Debian is just "one more Linux distribution". But considering that Debian is 100% free, I don't see any bad reputation on the Debian side, really. > They are going to keep losing users if they keep this > stupid "No patched binaries" thing up. It does nothing but to show how > stubborn, non-trusting and "non-free" (libre) they are, and it has become so > much of a frustration that many of us here choose to use mutt instead. Not our fault, I think. People should know that pine is not free. I would switch to mutt right now but I'm already very used to pine, so everything I can do is to recommend mutt over pine to my friends. > Should we get a petition and a nice request letter going? :-) RMS has tried it several times, I think, without any success. Do you really think we would succeed? Any special reason why they would hear us now but not before? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNT+a/SqK7IlOjMLFAQH85AP/QLrTHR2hr38wgfhhZ91+BE1buBFK4Nnj f0bkuNYv1x7IyvtsTKLTmKIP4WbwmaijPK83Iqdj0qJUrqcAc6LRMymP1EoPVQuU JjS6uRzN+aMiH/iP64Cbfd+uRGb0uZuI0AtjpUOGxXzb9prF9fPdIx09yD57/Rtp JfaRBO318l0= =xp4y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
