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Re: Firmware - what are we going to do about it?



On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 11:33:30AM +0200, Christian Kastner wrote:
> Hi Steve,
> 
> thank you for bringing this up.
> 
> On 2022-04-19 02:27, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> >  1. Keep the existing setup. It's horrible, but maybe it's the best we can do?
> >     (I hope not!)>
> >  2. We could just stop providing the non-free unofficial images altogether.
> >     That's not really a promising route to follow - we'd be making it even
> >     harder for users to install our software. While ideologically pure, it's
> >     not going to advance the cause of Free Software.
> 
> Here's a somewhat radical idea: I propose that we make option (1) and
> (2) conditional on all Debian infra switching to hardware entirely free
> of binary firmware/microcode blobs.
But people promoting these two options only care about loadable firmware,
not all of it...


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