On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 22:38 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 18:17 -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: > > Simple, legal, solves a lot of people's problems. At the cost of a bit of > > moral high ground, but if we can educate while solving the user's problem, > > maybe that's not a bad tradeoff after all. Somnething to be said for a > > good bully pulpit. > > And if we give in here, where does it end? Why not ship freely > redistributable binary apps if they "solve user problems"? And then, > maybe next is binary X drivers. > > Our ideals and morals are really the thing that sets us apart. Once > free always free doesn't just mean that you don't have to pay. > I think it is telling that debian recently sold out for java. It seems like fedora is the only truly free distribution left. I would like it to remain that way. -sv
