On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 09:49 -0500, Alan Cox wrote: > 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 > Alan, Thanks for the insight. Maybe it's time that this discussion/debatee was had. Given the trend toward storing firmware elsewhere that the actual hardware, this needs to be resolved (one way or the other). Rodd