On Tue, September 11, 2012 11:22 pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 11 sep 12, 14:47:57, Weaver wrote: >> >> There is a stage where the installer asks for contrib and non-free apt >> list inclusions. > > Only for expert installs AFAIK.
Ah yes, that's right! > >> It would probably be best to incorporate this as a default in a newbie >> install. > > In my opinion that would be a bad idea. While I can accept that some > (most?) people don't want or need to know about the intricacies of an > operating system I think they should be educated about their freedom (or > lack of). Exactly! > > They may end up giving it up and install non-free software (like many of > us do as well), but at least it would be an informed decision. I would argue for the successful, fully-operative installation first. Once access is there - to so many mediums - that education, along with many other aspects, would be a matter of informed choice also. But I think exposure and the resultant acceptance level need priority. Without that there's no appreciable change in market acceptance level. > >> Perhaps a note to explain this could be incorporated - 'If you are new >> to >> open source free software, we recommend that you accept this option'- or >> something along those lines might be appropriate. > > Debian is currently investigating *possibly*[1] removing any reference > to non-free that might be considered a recommendation, in order to be > accepted by the FSF as a free distro. > > [1] Debian may still end up keeping references to non-free if it > considers the service to the users is more important than acceptance by > the FSF. I think that also would be a matter of individual choice, which, after all, is Stallman's maxim. I'm certainly heading in that direction as far as attitude goes, at least. I look forward to greater implementation of HTML5 so that I can dump Flash, for example. Who knows? There could well be a fork in the future, with developers working on both. Where are they going to come from? Regards, Weaver -- "It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government." -- Thomas Paine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/b9f7cf198ca11a143cffd814fbbb0a08.squir...@fruiteater.riseup.net
