On Mar 20, 2007, seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The whole point is we are educating users where we cannot do a more > correct thing, right? Educating users might very well be the best thing we can do, indeed. I presented a suggestion to spot and Rahul in private, maybe I should bring it up here, since we're on this topic. What if Fedora were to split the non-Free firmware into a separate repository and separate bootable media, such that the default bootable/installable media would still be 100% Free Software, and it would have a Firmware Buddy that would let users know about freedom-depriving hardware in their computers. When presented with such a message, the user would have the option of proceeding (if possible) with the 100% Free Software install, even if that would leave some hardware features unusable, or load the non-free firmware media (think drivers disk) or reboot into an alternate media (say a boot-non-free.iso) to perform even the install using such non-Free components. If we do this right, we may even be able to take these non-Free components completely out of the Fedora project per se, and leave it up to third parties to undertake the issue of integration of such non-Free components. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
