"Danny Piccirillo" <danny.picciri...@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 13:19, Scott Kitterman <ubu...@kitterman.com> wrote: > >> >> >> "Danny Piccirillo" <danny.picciri...@ubuntu.com> wrote: >> >> >Of course it is! At least according to our philosophy: >> >http://www.ubuntu.com/project/about-ubuntu/our-philosophy >> > >> >Still, many people don't think that Ubuntu is truly committed to free >> >software in practice. These people can and should be our allies. Their >> >concerns are valid, and they are not difficult to appease. I'd like to >> >present a short list of simple ways that Ubuntu could show it's >> commitment: >> > >> >1. Offer ways to easily purge all non-free software from one's system. >> > * This would require supporting the linux libre kernel (it doesn't have >> to >> >be by default, but the option should be available. >> >> No. It doesn't. That kernel removes the ability to run non-free drivers. >> The exact same amount of non-free code runs if you don't have any installed. >> Just about the last thing Ubuntu needs is the maintenance overhead of >> another kernel that only serves ideological purposes. >> >> There is already a free software only install option that not only will not >> install anything non-free, it also disables the restricted and multiverse >> repositories so that people who are concerned about this can safely install >> new packages without fear of contamination. >> > >Yes, the free software only option is there, but isn't entirely free. That's >what linux-libre is for. Linux libre should be the kernel for the free >software install. Mainline Linux is not free because it includes binary-only >firmwares hidden as source code files (or blobs) > > Then these are bugs. They should be fixed. If the effort that's going into a political kernel fork were put into high quality patches more progress would be made. I suspect it's not because the fork is more about taking away people's freedom to run non-free code than it is about fixing problems with inadvertent problems with non-free bits in the kernel. Scott K -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
