[Fwd: Re: Fedora free software?]

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 21:47 -0400, seth vidal wrote:

> Seems like there are 3 things we should convey, then:
> 
> 1. you should attempt to buy hw with completely free drivers
> 
> 2. if you cannot, we have some options to get the best ones available at
> current which are not quite free but they're closer than a lot of
> others.
> 
> 3. if all else fails, be aware of the issue and why we need more
> pressure on hw vendors to do the right thing. So end users should tell
> the companies they purchase from that they won't completely open
> drivers.
> 
> 
> The whole point is we are educating users where we cannot do a more
> correct thing, right?

Indeed, and while RMS doesn't like that Fedora is shipping firmware,
he'd rather have us follow the above steps than do nothing. 

~spot