lloydsmart asked: Is that the only reason they continue to develop
Linux-Libre?
Continue? As if they should stop merely because some distro has a kernel
without binary blobs?
Please remember that Linux-libre predates Debian this area (2008 versus
2011.) I understand that Gentoo also offers the option to deblob their
kernels too using the deblob scripts from Linux-libre. Who knows what might
have happened in various distros if the work to make a freedom-respecting
kernel hadn't happened.
Debian and Gentoo, with their various package formats, aren't the only
distros on the planet. It makes sense to consolidate development on the clean
kernel instead of having each distro reimplement things from scratch. The
work on Linux-libre should continue so as to provide a source that distros
can easily use as a drop-in replacement for the kernel that comes from
kernel.org.
