Re: Lost Trust
Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org> writes:
> On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 11:31:45PM -0500, Ed wrote:
>> The lists don't offer any consolation - I now see it was deleted because
>> a patch to fix broken hardware was not offered in source form. Right.
>>
>> Do I have to read every changelog.Debian before accepting package
>> upgrades? Is there any reason I should trust debian again?
>
> Debian has two goals, as defined in the social contract -- to help our users
> and to help Free Software. When those goals collide, sometimes things get
> squished. Unfortunately, it appears you're jam this time.
>
> As to trusting Debian, I'd be inclined to point my distrust at vendors who
> don't make specifications or drivers available for their hardware, but maybe
> that's just me. Perhaps you can't trust Debian to do what you want. That's
> a call you have to make. What you can trust is that Debian will adhere to
> it's Social Contract. It's something that not a lot of Linux distributions
> have. If the terms of that Social Contract don't please you, then it's time
> to find another distribution.
>
> In the case of non-free firmware and the associated brou-ha-ha, it was
> decided, I think, that the needs of our users was best served in the long
> term by also helping Free Software. Considering we have both to worry
> about, there wasn't much else we could do.
How does removing firmware "help" free software?
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