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From: | Anthony Patarini |
Subject: | Re: [gNewSense-users] Re: free is not sufficient |
Date: | Tue, 14 Nov 2006 22:52:30 -0900 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060922) |
Karl Goetz wrote:
This may be true. I'm not sure, but it's really the same issue - Firefox, by default, points users to non-free software and this should be changed. There are many Free plugins for Firefox, like mozilla-plugin-vlc in the repos and the GNASH browser plugin.The larger problem is the plugins (i thought)
Yep. An example can be found at http://cipe-win32.sourceforge.net/ as linked from the NDISWrapper project page. This issue came up regarding ndiswrapper on Debian (I believe several times) a while back as well. Google-ing "debian ndiswrapper contrib" yields several such results.Ndiswrapper is a bit more troublesome, in that most of its purpose is to run non-free drivers. However, there are Free Software drivers forreally? i didn't know about that.
All programming languages can be used for both types of software - talking about them doesn't make your point.Actually I think it does... the point I'm making is that the tools in question are freedom agnostic and by removing a specific tool because it MIGHT be used to run non-free software really seems like we're trying to police the user. Is that really what freedom is about? Deliberately making life more difficult for those who would use non-free components AS WELL AS those who want to run atypical Free Software? My personal ideal situation is one in which gNewSense provides absolutely no non-free software by default, and does not link to or advocate the use of non-free software, but does not waste the effort to remove components that are Free in and of themselves.
removing anything that interacts with non-free isnt functional... unless we dont need openoffice :)kk
I don't get your meaning, sorry. :(
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