Interesting read about the future of Ubuntu

[Cybe R. Wizard]

On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 16:58:27 -0700
Robert Holtzman <holtzm at cox.net> wrote:

[being at odds with Debian values]

> If you mean it's unswerving devotion to open source only, I tend to
> agree, except I'm not quite so fanatical.

To be fair, Debian isn't fanatical and offers plenty of non-free
software, it just isn't located in the main 'Official' repository.
They are all about separation, to my mind; not necessarily, 'only
open,' but, 'only open if that's your wish.'

From:
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
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All packages that are included in the official Debian distribution are
free according to the Debian Free Software Guidelines. This assures
free use and redistribution of the packages and their complete source
code. The official Debian distribution is what is contained in the main
section of the Debian archive.

As a service to our users, we also provide packages in separate
sections that cannot be included in the main distribution due to either
a restrictive license or legal issues. They include:

Contrib
    Packages in this area are freely licensed by the copyright holder
but depend on other software that is not free. Non-Free
    Packages in this area have some onerous license condition
restricting use or redistribution of the software. 
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Cybe R. Wizard
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