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Re: exchange with Richard Stallman

Like Bill I'd like to be able to reach some sort of compromise with
RMS, but I don't think anything which results in a lot of work by the
Debian project is a good thing.

>1. We need to have packages with unstripped executables.

I agree with Bruce's position.  If someone wants a value-added Debian,
they should do the work - not us - but I don't think it should be too
much work for us to make it possible.

>2. We need to encourage people to write documentation in Texinfo.

I personally find the `info' format to be absolutely atrocious for
reference purposes, so I'm unlikely to agree with this one.  FWIW,
HTML gets my vote.

One of the great advantages of HTML is that it's strictly more open
than Texinfo - a link from an HTML document can (in principal) point
to any document in any language; whereas Texinfo links just point to
more Texinfo.

>4. We need a complete separation between what we distribute
>and all non-free software.

Debian's aims, as far as I can tell, are to produce a technically good
system.  RMS also wants a (to him) politically good system.  I don't
believe these two aims are compatible.

-- 
Richard Kettlewell                                  You are April, you are May,
richard@uk.geeks.org                                What a stupid thing to say.
                         Just forgive me and forget that I ever opened my mouth
http://www.elmail.co.uk/staff/richard/                 And let it all come out.