[Fwd: Re: Fedora free software?]

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Tue Mar 20 20:50:43 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 21:36 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> This problem is much bigger than just wireless too. If we decide to go
> the crazy debian route of not shipping firmware, we can forget about a
> ton of storage hardware, a bunch of ethernet drivers, x86 microcode
> updates, some sound cards and probably a bunch of USB gadgets.
> 
> Neutering our drivers just as we're starting to get somewhere with
> "works out
> of the box" would be a huge step backwards.   Is it worth driving
> more users towards Ubuntu in the name of "freedom", especially given
> it's a freedom that few (if any) would ever exercise?

Nope. And we have no plans to drop the binary firmware exception at this
time. I wish we didn't need it, but we do.

~spot




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