2008/3/23, Anders Karlsson <anders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
I agree, when we can offer no free alternative crippling peoples setups is just a way of ensuring we have fewer voices to speak for freedom in the long run. We should pick our battles to win the war.
* Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx> [20080323 14:20]:
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 01:42:47AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> > But then, even if we create a spin without these firmwares, the kernel
> > still contains non-Free Software. My goal is to help enable people to
> > create official Fedora spins that don't contain any non-Free Software.
>
> Will you be shipping them a flash erase for the bios as well ?
BIOS, hard drive and storage controller firmwares, CPU microcode etc
etc. Crippling, or making things useless, to prove a point seems to be
fashionable however.
I agree, when we can offer no free alternative crippling peoples setups is just a way of ensuring we have fewer voices to speak for freedom in the long run. We should pick our battles to win the war.
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