On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 07:06:08PM +0200, Laurent Bercot wrote: [cut]
> But machine installation is not the time for advocacy. The decision > has already been made, and at that point, telling users that it sucks > isn't going to help anyone, it's just going to make the distribution > look bad. > So in you opinion Debian looks bad to the users, since it does not come with built-in firmware blobs in the default installer? If I had to choose between making a few users more happy (as Ubuntu tried to do) and adhering to a principled and motivated policy, I would go for the latter. Again, please don't forget that a lot of crap has been pushed forward "because the average user could find it useful". The only problem I have here is that I can't find anywhere a definition of what an "average user" looks like... My2cents KatolaZ -- [ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ --- GLUG Catania -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ me [at] katolaz.homeunix.net -- http://katolaz.homeunix.net -- ] [ GNU/Linux User:#325780/ICQ UIN: #258332181/GPG key ID 0B5F062F ] [ Fingerprint: 8E59 D6AA 445E FDB4 A153 3D5A 5F20 B3AE 0B5F 062F ] _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng