Op Fri, 03 Jan 2014 00:15:18 -0500 schreef Quiliro Ordóñez Baca <quil...@congresolibre.org>:
> A network card will not cost more than ten dollars. You won't spare > ten dollars for freedom? One could argue that money and software freedom are not the only factors to take into account. How much time and effort does it cost to get such a network card? How much time and effort does it cost to return/replace it should it be broken? What's the cradle-to-grave social impact of this network card? And the environmental impact? And of the old one, considering it's disposed of before its expected failure? Does the chip manufacturer/card producer/retailer of the new card actually support software freedom or is it just a coincidence that it works with free software? Is the other hardware that's already in possession compatible or does that also need to be replaced? Etc. gNewSense's focus is on software freedom, and that will not change. That means it doesn't fully work with some hardware configurations. Is that a reason to compromise and include non-free software for those devices? We think not, because that sends out the message that it's ok to not support software freedom. But we acknowledge that non-free software exists and that some people choose to use it. That's why we don't take away the user's choice to do so (which would be impossible to do with free software anyway). We just don't encourage or support it in any way. _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list gNewSense-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users