On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Nicu Buculei <nicu_fedora@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 06/12/2012 12:58 PM, drago01 wrote: > >> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Nicu Buculei wrote: >>> >>> >>> The point is we have a target audience: >>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User_base >>> >>> Our desired users ARE contributors. >> >> >> We do have a mission as well: >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview#Our_Mission >> >> "The Fedora Project consistently seeks to create, improve, and spread >> free/libre code and content. " > > > And Bingo! the mission is all about freedom. I didn't deny that. >> Which you don't do by excluding users ... sure we want to gain new >> contributors but that does not mean that we should exclude other >> users. > > > Not if it affects our freedom, is a problem of freedom versus convenience. No because secure boot does not limit your freedom in *any* way. If you want to hack on the kernel or other low level stuff flip a switch in the firmware. It is reasonable to expect this type of users to be able to do that. > If spreading to some users means losing some freedom, then I think that is > against the mission. We are not loosing any freedom we are implementing a technology that makes fedora work out of the box on newer hardware. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
