Mauricio Campiglia

Easter celebrates freedom and renovation according to our occidental culture traditions. Those values made me feel appropriate, after a long absence, to came back with a mea culpa, an apologize that can (kind of) forgive myself of my propietary ties.

During a FLISOL 2007 coordination meeting one of the organizers said there is a Debian package that let us know which propietary software we have on our machines, VRMS (Virtual Richard M. Stallman). Forgive me Richard, for I have sin. Here are my wrongdoings:

             Non-free packages installed on Aldebaran

dcc-common                Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse - common files
dvdrtools                 DVD writing program
grokking-the-gimp         GIMP tutorial book by Carey Bunks (HTML)
lha                       lzh archiver
  Reason: No modifications allowed, non-network distributions problematic
nttcp                     New test TCP program
picasa                    Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit
povray                    Persistence of vision raytracer (3D renderer)
  Reason: Distribution limitations, modifications limited
rar                       Archiver for .rar files
scribus-doc               english-language documentation for the internal help b
skype                     Free Internet Telephony - The whole world can talk for
sl-modem-daemon           SmartLink software modem daemon
spectrum-roms             ZX Spectrum ROMs
sun-j2sdk1.5              Java(TM) 2 SDK, Standard Edition, Sun Microsystems(TM)
  Reason: Proprietary licence, no source available
sun-java5-bin             Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0 (architectu
sun-java5-demo            Sun Java(TM) Development Kit (JDK) 5.0 demos and examp
sun-java5-doc             Sun JDK(TM) Documention -- integration installer
sun-java5-jdk             Sun Java(TM) Development Kit (JDK) 5.0
sun-java5-jre             Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0 (architectu
sun-java5-plugin          The Java(TM) Plug-in, Java SE 5.0
sun-java5-source          Sun Java(TM) Development Kit (JDK) 5.0 source files
ttf-xfree86-nonfree       non-free TrueType fonts from XFree86
unrar                     Unarchiver for .rar files (non-free version)
  Reason: Modifications problematic
xaralx                    Heavyweight vector graphics, illustration and DTP Prog
xaralx-examples           Examples of works created by XaraLx
xaralx-svg                SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) plugin for XaraLX

  25 non-free packages, 1.1% of 2374 installed packages.

98.9% purity… not bad, but should improve as teachers use to say.