As long as it's finally in, I'm happy (for how long?)

Posted May 26, 2006 3:55 UTC (Fri) by jstAusr (guest, #27224)
In reply to: As long as it's finally in, I'm happy by kenyee
Parent article: How Sun's Java got into Debian

And that will work just fine until the freedom goes away because no one cared. Then, the system will only work the way the proprietary vendors want it to. At that point you won't be able to do a damn thing about it.

if the proprietary vendors start flexing their legal idiots

Posted May 26, 2006 14:29 UTC (Fri) by kenyee (guest, #37992) [Link]

just take the package out :-)

What "freedoms" could go away? I still don't get what the big deal is...the important thing for the next step in Linux evolution is to make it easier for users (which is probably why Ubuntu has been so successful, even though I disagree w/ forking the Debien code so I've installed Kanotix instead)...