LWN headline: Blame Fedora = High Praise
Alexandre Oliva
aoliva at redhat.com
Thu May 3 22:36:32 UTC 2007
On May 1, 2007, "Stephen John Smoogen" <smooge at gmail.com> wrote:
> First doing this breaks the "Work with Upstream" on this.
> I would say that the first step would be for Alexandre Oliva and
> similar minded people to create a SIG and then build a working
> kernel+tools around Fedora 7 final to get a working design done.
It looks like there's a lot of confusion as to what I'm talking about.
For the nth time, I'm not talking about removing the non-Free firmware
that's "hidden" in the kernel. Not doing so is a stand-still that
might be acceptable.
I'm talking about *not* adding *more* non-Free firmware as separate
packages. Adding them is a step away from freedom, the stated goal of
the project.
That said, yes, cleaning the Fedora kernel from non-Free firmware
sounds like an interesting project I should probably get my hands on.
But don't let this other topic get you confused as to the point I'm
trying to bring up here. It's just a distraction.
--
Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/
Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org}
Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
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