From: Michele Andreoli (m.andreoli@tin.it)
Date: Tue Jun 19 2001 - 19:52:45 CEST
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 03:08:31PM +0100, khz@snafu.de nicely wrote:
> This does not have anything to do with making muLinux /possible/ but rather
> it means adding some nice programs to muLinux to make it more interesting for
> a special kind of users: the ones targeted to having an even more usefull
> muLinux and not being interested sooooo much in licensing issues.
I agree totally, under the right statement you point: this kind of addiction
has to be considered *an exception*, in order to confirm the basic rule.
>
> Ok, before you consider starting yet another flame war, please believe me that I
> do NOT 'insist' in getting Opera for muLinux (I would never dare 'demanding'
> something a free software author).
Oh, I'm just happy if You, Karl-Heinz do not insist in removing every
muLinux addons!
>I just wanted to tell my humble opinion that
> being a non-free product does not neccessarily mean it is an uninteresting
> product or one that is not worth being included into muLinux:
Perfectly true. Even Debian added some non-free product in its distro,
in order to drag together also free-software.
>
> IMHO the decision whether something will/could/should not be included
> into muLinux should be made based upon severe technical reasons or based
> upon strong demand of thousands of users or something like that -- but not
> primarily based upon the fact that it it or is not FREE software.
In the case of Opera/Netscape, we are very lucky: Netscape is not a *puma*,
as far page-rendering is concerned, but to have Internet+XWindow+Netscape
is only four floppy-disk is anyway a good thing to have.
Michele
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