El 05/12/17 a las 10:19, Thibaut Paumard escribió: > Dear Sean, > > Le 04/12/2017 à 21:47, Sean Whitton a écrit : > > Hello, > > > > On Mon, Dec 04 2017, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > > > > > I vote for: > > > 1- putting the non-free firmware on all our images, > > > > This seems more controversial than it needs to be, and misses an > > opportunity for us to express our values. > > > > Why are you against maintaining the fullly free images alongside those > > with non-free firmware? The issue is that the latter are hidden, not > > that there's anything much wrong with the former. > > > > Mostly because we should keep it (or rather make it) as simple as possible > to install Debian. > > I also believe this should be less controversial. I don't see any problem > with shipping non-free firmware on our main installation media as long as > they are redistributable, because I don't consider them part of the OS. The > user has this hardware, to use it she needs the OS to upload that third-pary > blob to her device, let's allow her to do that easily. > > Having the two download links side by side on the front page would already > be a major improvement, but it would still be very confusing for our users. > That's why I would prefer to put the "beware of the leopard" sign inside the > install medium, and provide only one medium that would work for both kinds > of users. … It's surely not the perfect approach, but I think this would be the best option if Debian wants to attract new non-expert users. -- Santiago
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