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Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main



On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 08:41:29PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Feb 27, Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net> wrote:
> 
> > Better we spend our time actually supporting the hardware with free
> > software. 
> There is almost none. At most you can choose if you want to get your
> proprietary firmware on board or not.

Not only that, there are obviously other considerations when buying a laptop
than whether the wireless card has free drivers or not.  Things such as
price, combination of features, etc.  Our users shouldn't be forced to buy a
GNU anointed laptop (if such a thing even exists) in order to get support for
their devices.

--Adam

-- 
Adam McKenna  <adam@debian.org>  <adam@flounder.net>



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