Bjørn wrote: >Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com> writes: > >> Marc Haber wrote: >>> >>>I was not aware of that feature. It is good to have that, but I would >>>be embarrassed to seriously suggest this way because we can't manage >>>to get WLAN working in the installer for political reasons. >> >> Are we seriously just going to describe our Free Software goals as >> "political reasons"? Should we just abandon them? > >FWIW, I did not read Marc that way.
Fair enough. >Somehow, the Free Software goals have been interpreted to mean that >there is a difference in "free" between firmware on device internal >flash and firmware on host ssd. This makes no sense from a technical >point of view. Which makes the interpretation political if we assume >that the decision is made by otherwise sane people ignoring technical >arguments. To a simple end user, there might not be a difference. They have firmware for their device. However, in the latter case Debian has shipped non-free stuff. That is a big shift in our position. Don't get me wrong: I'm not saying this is an impossible place for us to go to. But before we do that we should have an open and honest debate about it. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "You can't barbecue lettuce!" -- Ellie Crane