LWN headline: Blame Fedora = High Praise

[Mike McGrath]

Koh Choon Lin wrote:
>> I want to see the FSF advising Fedora what it can do to influence the
>> hardware vendors to not use firmware blobs without killing off our user
>> base. But that is a much harder problem to solve, and involves less
>> rhetoric.
>
> We need to convince the open source movement to join with us in
> boycotting those companies whose hardware has no drivers.
>

Our efforts would be better spent educating users and providing a 
platform for the companies.  In the instance of firmware drivers the 
difference between utopia and what is reasonable isn't that large.  Most 
users won't go out of their way to boycott a company since "binary 
drivers" != "killing kittens"

    -Mike