On 28 July 2015 at 18:06, Erwan David <er...@rail.eu.org> wrote: > Le 28/07/2015 18:16, Lisi Reisz a écrit : > > On Tuesday 28 July 2015 16:54:12 Michael Fothergill wrote: > >> For me, normal use of the non-free stuff is a bit like choosing to use > an > >> umbrella ie useful but non essential that has a designer label printed > on > >> it etc. Or not if that is your choice. > > It depends. If you want to use a particular computer, it may be > essential in > > the installer. Using that computer is, of course, possibly like > choosing a > > designer umbrella. > > > > Lisi > > > > > > I'd rather say that finding a computer which does not need any > proprietary firmware, but is available on the market would be the > biggest problem.
When I said that I saw the manual installation of the firmware( so that X11 could work) I did after adding the non-free option in the source file as being like putting on a free pair of spectacles, I meant that I felt like Thelma Dinkley until I had solved this problem...... Whereas when I said that turning on the the non-free option in the installer was similar to adorning a free prosthetic leg, I meant that if I were unfortunate to have purchased a computer that needed the firmware in the installer enabled then I would have felt like Long John Silver or Captain Hook and could not ambulate the OS installation properly without a better prosthetic leg than these characters possessed in reality. If it is true that most computers do infact require non-free firmware then most users are going to have the Scooby Doo experience and some will be end up being pirates as well but perhaps not entirely involuntarily so...... I thought that you would only graduate to the umbrella stage once you had found your sea legs and spectacles as it were....... MF
