On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 08:51:14AM +1100, Riley Baird wrote: > On Wed, 09 Nov 2016 10:01:51 -0800 > Ivan Zaigralin <melik...@melikamp.com> wrote: > > > non-free hard/software > > What, so now the FSDG don't allow you to recommend non-free hardware? > > > The FSDG could not be clearer on this point: it will not approve > > any project that advertises and/or delivers non-free software > > Should Trisquel be able to create a list of computers with compatible > hardware?
When I land on a web page of free system distribution, I don't expect it to recommend me any non-free hardware. With some tags on such hardware, like Trisquel has made a list, it gives me a freedom of choice. If I am however attracted to PureOS, arriving to Puri.sm website, these are all "meanings" in the names, and then I come to Notebook "Librem", these are all targeted words for certain group of users, I feel it is targeted for me. Then again I get Librem notebook with non-free blobs, whatever. Hypocrisy. I don't expect that from a free system distribution. So: Any hardware, containing and kind of software inside, and recommended by free system distributions shall be compatible with Free System Distribution Guidelines. This way, blobs, firmware, non-free software in such hardware would not be recommended to users of free software. Finally, that type of software often has a potential power to take over the full computing control. The non-free hardware has been recommended to users over few decades. The Free System Distributions and Free Software movement is to make a turn and change there, it is not there to promote non-free software and non-free BIOS, it is there to eradicate it. Wordnet: 2. (1) hypocrisy -- (insincerity by virtue of pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do not really have) Jean Louis