On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 10:25:50AM +1100, Rodd Clarkson wrote: > I'm a little confused. Are you talking about this thread as 'our > original discussions' or has then been discussed elsewhere and you are > referring to these other threads. If so, could you supply some pointers > to where? Long ago before Fedora existed a bunch of Red Hat folks sat down and drafted a set of proposals for "What is Fedora", "Why is Fedora good", etc. One of the things we wanted was a free software distro buildable with free software. I went through that discussion archive and although we discussed issues like extras dependancies on non-core for example we never discussed firmware at all. The extension of the current policy onto firmware files is not a planned and thought out event, its just happened. Now I happen to think it is right to keep firmware seperate but thats not a debate we had when founding Fedora