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Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] Fwd: Knoppix, KDE
From:       "Kurt Pfeifle" <kpfeifle () danka ! de>
Date:       2003-05-10 19:07:12
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Richard Stallman wrote:

> You have not understood the context.
> 
> It looks like I did understand.

OK -- thanks, Richard, for at least arguing point-by-point. (Not everybody
who answered me, did so. I also received 4 private mails, and soem of the
people didn't seem to have read all.)

We don't agree here. I am in favour of making compromises, *where* *it*
*helps* *the* *cause*. (Not foul compromises). Here I'd say it helps.

You don't support compromises (at least this is the impression you create
in my mind), at least not here.

I understand that it may be a virtue, under certain conditions to have a
certain stubbornness. Without it, GNU wouldn't exist.

But is is correct under all circumstances?

[...skipping...]

> 	 ==> Are you saying we should rather dispense of this features
> 	     in Knoppix and tell the audience: "Sorry, we don't support
> 	     printing preconfigured, because there is no Free
> 	     PostScript driver for you -- but you know what?? You
> 	     can now upload the Xerox|HP|Epson|what-have-yuu
> 	     driver (or the CUPS PostScript driver) to the server
> 	     once and then automatically install it on the clients"?
> 
> I don't think we are talking about what you should say to them or to
> anyone.  We're talking about what to put in a new distro whose purpose
> is to be entirely free software.
> 
> However, for what it's worth, here's what I would say to them:
> 
> "Sorry, we don't support printing preconfigured, because
> there is no Free PostScript driver for you.  I cannot
> recommend any solution to you.  Would you like to
> contribute to developing one?"

If I'd talk like that, I would assume my audience are already
supporters of Free Software. That assumption is false. They
are not.

> I would say that because I will not recommend a non-free program.
> 
> > Then it will be no better than
> > Knoppix.
> 
> Is Knoppix "Bad"?
> 
> The whole point of making this distro is that Knoppix has a problem:
> inclusion of non-free software.  If it had no problem there would be
> no need to replace it.
> 

Cheers,
Kurt


 
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