Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo internal structure

[Stewart Honsberger <blkdeath@gentoo.org>]

Jon Portnoy wrote:
>>I suppose I am dismayed that we are failing to promote free software
>>over proprietary software.
> 
> We are promoting giving users a choice. What we are failing at is trying 
> to force them into using free software.
> 
> Quick poll of people reading this thread: Would you like to see the 
> removal of nonfree software from the tree? That means things like 
> vmware, the java packages, etc.
> 
> Or perhaps someone should start a poll in the forums in Gentoo Chat 
> about it.

Much as I'm an advocate of free, open software - I'm also an advocate of 
choice. I'm also practical; I firmly believe in using the tool that does 
the job. There are just some applications where free/open software 
hasn't matured enough to be used in, eg, enterprise or even small 
business (or, for that matter, on the desktop).

I'd rather be able to use the proprietary software until the f/o stuff 
is mature enough for me to take the leap. Not everybody has the time to 
debug all of their software packages for several weeks before they can 
get full use out of it.

</ramble>

:P

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Stewart Honsberger
Gentoo Developer
http://www.snerk.org/


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