<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2008/3/23, Anders Karlsson <<a href="mailto:anders@trudheim.co.uk">anders@trudheim.co.uk</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
* Alan Cox <<a href="mailto:alan@redhat.com">alan@redhat.com</a>> [20080323 14:20]:<br> <br>> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 01:42:47AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:<br> > > But then, even if we create a spin without these firmwares, the kernel<br>
> > still contains non-Free Software. My goal is to help enable people to<br> > > create official Fedora spins that don't contain any non-Free Software.<br> ><br> > Will you be shipping them a flash erase for the bios as well ?<br>
<br> <br>BIOS, hard drive and storage controller firmwares, CPU microcode etc<br> etc. Crippling, or making things useless, to prove a point seems to be<br> fashionable however.<br></blockquote><div><br>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.</div>
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