Re: My platform
I have the same God-forsaken wireless card in my laptop. In this day and age
where there are dozens of 10Mbit wireless cores out there I managed to get
suckered into buying a Centrino because Intel was deceptive about their
support for Linux. Rather than bending our sensibilities to appease these
companies we should provide a database of vendors who sell laptops that are
verified to be 100% free-software supported. Hit 'em where it hurts, the
wallet!
Oh. Ooops. I'm not running for DPL am I? Uh, will one of you guys add
"database of free software capable equipment" to your platform? I'll help
write it.
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 10:12 pm, Angus Lees wrote:
> To give a concrete example: My laptop has an extremely comon centrino
> (ipw2200) wireless card. To support this card under Debian/Linux, I
> need to install packages from contrib and download a firmware blob by
> hand. To simply have the HTML4 specification easily available, I need
> to install packages from non-free. What I'm trying to say is that by
> removing all these things from main (imo) too quickly and too early,
> we have instead *encouraged* all our users to use non-free. The best
> outcome is of course that these things are available under a licence
> we can all be happy with, but there is a clear distinction between
> these "grey area" cases and "really non-free" stuff like Macromedia
> flash plugins. I'm concerned that the long-term goal is going to
> suffer by forcing users to make the choice between (a) going somewhere
> else or (b) exposing themselves to poorly supported software from
> non-free.
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Ean Schuessler, CTO
Brainfood, Inc.
http://www.brainfood.com
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