On 26-Jun-2006, Kaloian Doganov wrote:
[the non-free section is] Not part of the debian operating system.
Of course, you can always redefine what "Debian" is in order to keep the statement "Debian is a free operating system" true.
The definition and goal of Debian has always been to make an entirely free operating system, ever since the original documents creating the project. What are you implying has changed, or will change?
But we are not interested so much in what Debian *is*, but what software (free or proprietary) you distribute to users.
This continues to be an irritating confusion, but one that many of us are working to change.