Re: "keep non-free" proposal
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 12:58:11PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
> Em Mon, 8 Mar 2004 14:42:01 +0100, Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> escreveu:
>
> > like the opensparc one for example. There is also a free hardware
> > community out there, as well as free firmware people, but these are
> > areas debian as whole, and the non-free proponent in particular, have
> > largely been ignoring.
>
> Indeed. We have been ignoring this kind of thing, but I would not say
> we should drop the 'remove non-free' thing just because we are not
> giving enough attention to free hardware. We should, instead, start
> trying to have the project get into contact with them and to stabilish
> some relationship with such projects to have free hardware used as
> test buildd's, for example, to help them debug stuff (I'm totally clueless
> on hardware stuff -- I have no idea if I'm talking shit here, but I guess
> you can get the point).
I guess they run fine on emulation, but i doubt that will survive to be
used as an auto builder.
The main problem is that building hardware cost truckloads of money.
> That's a good thing for our next DPL to do: try to bring Debian closer
> to free hardware initiatives.
This was already a theme of past elections i think. Nothing happened
though.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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