Dmitry Smirnov <only...@member.fsf.org> writes: > On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 15:12:34 Andrew Roffey wrote: > > Not providing nonfree software in Debian would not be censoring it. > > As you showed with your printer example, you downloaded your driver > > from the HP website. > > Sorry I meant censoring the very information about availability > (existence) of non-free driver, not the driver itself. This is > regarding installer's prompt to provide a firmware. If we know such > driver exist, shouldn't we tell user about it when there is no other > way to make hardware work?
Conversely, at what point does “the Debian project tells [the] user about it” become “the Debian project promotes non-free software”? It seems to me that the distinction is vital to the convergence we're trying to find in this forum. -- \ “Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature | `\ cannot be fooled.” —Richard P. Feynman, _Rogers' Commission | _o__) Report into the Challenger Crash_, 1986-06 | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Fsf-collab-discuss mailing list Fsf-collab-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/fsf-collab-discuss