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Re: Possible draft non-free firmware option with SC change



On Sat, 2022-09-10 at 09:16 +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:

> So the practical problems facing people requiring non-free software
> appears solved or possible to solve.

As I understand it there are two problems solved by proposal A/E:

Users who aren't aware of the firmware problem are directed by the
Debian website to download the free installer, they try it out, find it
doesn't work on their hardware and then abandon Debian in favour of
other distros, or ask questions about it to the Debian support channels
or the Debian teams involved in the image creation/distribution. They
always get the non-free installer eventually, but we have wasted their
time and ours by directing them to the free installer by default.

Since the hardware most users use causes the first problem, the people
fielding these support requests see that the free installer is in most
cases not useful and therefore want to stop building or working on it.

My earlier proposal that solves these issues without a GR or SC change:

https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/683a7c0e69b081aae8c46bd4027bf7537475624a.camel@debian.org

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