[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: please release sarge instead of removing binary firmware



Roland Stigge dijo [Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 02:33:39PM +0200]:
> <rant>
> Let's ship cheap old 80286, 80386 or similar chips (maybe RFID?)
> together with Debian, let the users stick it into their boxes and let
> them declare it as the new CPU of their systems, making all the other
> chips just "coprocessors". Thus, we can include all kinds of proprietary
> software into Debian while adhering to Policy and DFSG. Great idea!
> </rant>
> 
> [Sorry, couldn't resist.]

<rant_rep type="pointless" action="ignore">

I wholeheartedly agree. We must promise that every boxed Debian set we
ship will be accompanied by a 386 board. Anyway, last I checked, we
still didn't make boxed sets ;-)

</rant_rep>

-- 
Gunnar Wolf - gwolf@gwolf.cx - (+52-55)5630-9700 ext. 1366
PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23
Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973  F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF



Reply to: