Re: Lost Trust

[Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com>]

Wouter Verhelst wrote:
>Please, try not to give such black-and-white responses. There's a world
>of difference between "merging non-free right into main" and "ensuring a
>driver, which requires non-free firmware to be loaded, works, instead of
>just throwing the driver and the firmware entirely out of Debian, and
>telling users that they're unlucky, and that they should've bought free
>hardware, ha ha".

Please come up with a meaningful difference between putting non-free 
peripheral software needed only for a few rare pieces of hardware (the actual 
case with the tg3 driver) into 'main', and putting any other piece of 
non-free  software in 'main'.

"Lost Trust" is a good title; I don't trust most Debian Developers to follow 
the Social Contract any more.

I agree, of course, that Herbert should have patched the driver to remove the 
usually-unnecessary firmware rather than just removing the driver.