Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo internal structure

[Matthew Kennedy <mkennedy@gentoo.org>]

Sven Vermeulen <swift@gentoo.org> writes:

> On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 09:16:19AM -0600, Matthew Kennedy wrote:
>> Personally, I am only interested in supporting and using free
>> software, so...
>>
>> The best solution is just to remove support for anything non-free in
>> portage and to also remove any non-free software from our mirrors.
>> Let some other external project step up to the plate and provide a
>> non-free overlay if they wish.
>
> I disagree. Give the users who want the chance to not use "non-free"
> software, but also give the others the chance to use non-free software.
>
> I think you'll get a lot of gamers against you when you tell them you don't
> want them to easily install their favorite non-free game :)

[...]

Jon, Sven,

Obviously, its more important that the "gamers" are not upset by a
single line change in make.conf.  The principle of building a Free
software distribution has got to be less important than that.

Seriously though, it is my impression that you may be surprised how
many folks care that their box uses free software only.  You might
want to check the Debian news out of late.  There's a proposal to do
away with(?) non-free in their distro (ie. clause 5. in their social
contract would be removed).

I suppose I am dismayed that we are failing to promote free software
over proprietary software.

Matt
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Matthew Kennedy
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