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

[Dave Jones]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 04:25:53AM -0400, Alan Cox wrote:

 > I also found it amusing last time I looked that the free software extremists
 > were removing firmware which wasn't code, removing firmware which you'd
 > write in hex anyway etc.
 
And neglecting to remove plenty of other firmware.
And not just in the kernel either.   The x86 microcode updater is
a pretty essential thing to have run during bootup. Some early Pentium III's
locked up when running 2.6 kernels under load unless they had an update
applied.  Removing this package will make you more "free" at the expense
of breaking some percentage of the userbase.
This "well my system is ok, screw everyone else" approach is what I find
so fundamentally broken in this idea.  Especially as the people advocating
for this aren't those who get to deal with the fallout when users start
filing bugs.

	Dave

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