Re: Lost Trust
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.
Reply to: