On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 08:03:42PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Norbert Tretkowski wrote: > > > * Nathanael Nerode wrote: > >> Marco d'Itri wrote: > >> > No, the point is that most people do not care if a firmware has to > >> > be uploaded by a driver instead of being flashed in the device. > >> > >> Most people do not care whether their software is free or not. > >> Debian does. > > > > Thus Debian shouldn't run on hardware which requires non-free binary > > firmware? > *sigh* Are you deliberately missing the point? > > Debian supports users of non-free software. Similarly, Debian supports > users of hardware which requires non-free software, such as the hardware > you're talking about. However, the Debian system itself does not contain > non-free software. So basically what you are implying is that Debian should support non-free more than it currently does, due to the fact that the kernel or at least a fairly sizable portion of it will need to move to non-free. Of course it won't be official Debian but in practice it will cause Debian to support non-free software even more than it has in the past with needed non-free security update support and autobuilder support. Also Debian will need to provide debian-installer images for non-free as well so that people with hardware that really does need that non-free software will be able to install Debian. Chris
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