Re: [gNewSense-users] I concur with the effort to become and remain free.

[Karl Goetz]

J.B. Nicholson-Owens wrote:
> Yavor Doganov wrote:
>
>> I don't think that gNewSense, as a distribution, must make extra
>> effort not to be possible to install non-free software.  But it should
>> not make extra effort not to BREAK the users' systems that have
>> non-free software installed.  That's what most of the other GNU/Linux
i agree.
just as we dont stop people installing non free software, but we dont
help them do so.

>> distros do -- they refrain from changes that might badly affect
>> non-free software users or take care to add "Conflicts:" (or the
>> equivalent of it) to reduce the harm these users could suffer.  This
>> is unacceptable for an ethical free software distribution.
>
> I agree.  By way of hypothetical example:
>
> - if you installed a non-free PDF reader and some gNewSense package
> somehow clobbered the settings to keep that program working, that's
> not a bug.
Depends - the reason .files exist is to keep different programs settings
separate. if the gns package used the wrong .files/folder, its a bug.
>
> - if you installed a free PDF reader and some gNewSense package
> somehow clobbered the settings to keep that program working, that's a
> bug.
depends on .files/folders again.
kk
>
> gNewSense is here to help you become and remain free, not to aid your
> dependency on non-free software.
>
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Karl Goetz
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