On 30 May 2012 15:32, Johnny A. Solbu <coo...@solbu.net> wrote: >> So there're two kinds of Linux distro: > > I beg to differ, there are three kinds, using your way of counting. > >> - those who provides free & proprietary drivers >> - those who only provides free drivers, with the needed firmwares > > - those who only provides free drivers, without proprietary firmwares > > You have Ututo, Blag, gNewSense and the other FSF approved distros which > takes every care in ensuring that No proprietary drivers of any kind, > including firmware, is not available. They even remove the few proprietary > drivers which are included in the upstream kernel. (Debian also does this as > of version 6, in the main tree.) > If some hardware does not work without having a proprietary firmware or > driver, then that particular hardware does not work. Period. The user must > install a proprietary driver them selves afterwards if they want to use it, > and the distro does not help them in any way to achieve this.
Please... We're speaking about those who actually have (a decent number of) users
