Re: Reconsidering Debian’s Inclusion of Non-Free Firmware - A Call for Discussion
On Sun, Mar 09, 2025 at 01:32:47PM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
Another way to look at this outcome, and the one I personally prefer
by a wide margin, is that it'd be very cool to have them, but at this
time their utility is … questionable, given that I personally own zero
(out of umpteen) computers that would work with such an image.
And because if someone wants to avoid non-free firmware they can install
on a computer that doesn't require it--meaning that no non-free firmware
can/will be loaded. So the entire benefit of this exercise is to not
have "icky non-free firmware" sitting unused on the install media. That
seems like an utterly trivial result which can't possibly justify the
level of effort involved.
As when this came up originally, I do not understand how it can be
considered "freer" to actively prevent people from having an option,
when those who don't want that option can simply not use it.
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