kernel-libre (hopefully 100% Free) for Fedora 8 and rawhide

David Nielsen gnomeuser at gmail.com
Sun Mar 23 15:36:16 UTC 2008


2008/3/23, Anders Karlsson <anders at trudheim.co.uk>:
>
> * Alan Cox <alan at redhat.com> [20080323 14:20]:
>
> > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 01:42:47AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> > > But then, even if we create a spin without these firmwares, the kernel
> > > still contains non-Free Software.  My goal is to help enable people to
> > > create official Fedora spins that don't contain any non-Free Software.
> >
> > Will you be shipping them a flash erase for the bios as well ?
>
>
> BIOS, hard drive and storage controller firmwares, CPU microcode etc
> etc. Crippling, or making things useless, to prove a point seems to be
> fashionable however.
>

I agree, when we can offer no free alternative crippling peoples setups is
just a way of ensuring we have fewer voices to speak for freedom in the long
run. We should pick our battles to win the war.
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