http://www.debian-news.net/2012/07/06/zacchiroli-working-with-fsf-on-debian-free-ness-assessment/ All the news you need about Debian Tue, 14 May 2013 09:09:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.debian-news.net/2012/07/06/zacchiroli-working-with-fsf-on-debian-free-ness-assessment/comment-page-1/#comment-8588 Shankar Fri, 13 Jul 2012 04:27:17 +0000 http://www.debian-news.net/?p=9681#comment-8588 I agree. Please don’t cripple Debian for most users by eliminating non-free repositories entirely. The current Debian approach strikes me as the correct one, with the right combination of flexibility and freeness. The FSF approach will make the system unusable for a very large number of people – particularly those who, like me, live in parts of India or other countries where a wide range of hardware is simply not accessible. The FSF’s position does not take into account ground realities and there’s no reason for Debian to stick to its stipulations.

]]> http://www.debian-news.net/2012/07/06/zacchiroli-working-with-fsf-on-debian-free-ness-assessment/comment-page-1/#comment-8577 R S Chakravarti Sun, 08 Jul 2012 15:44:00 +0000 http://www.debian-news.net/?p=9681#comment-8577 Maybe non-free and contrib could be moved to a site outside of Debian. But there should be some exceptions such as firmware-linux-nonfree which a lot of people need. I think it is more important to help them use Debian than to satisfy FSF.

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