kernel-libre (hopefully 100% Free) for Fedora 8 and rawhide
Alexandre Oliva
aoliva at redhat.com
Tue Mar 25 17:21:36 UTC 2008
On Mar 25, 2008, Alan Cox <alan at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 03:13:12AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> First, we need a 100% Free kernel in Fedora.
> For Free read useless.
I'm running the kernels I posted on my main home server and at the
laptop from which I'm typing this message. A single counter-example
should be enough to disprove this statement, but I got two.
> More sensible approaches like kernel-firmware.rpm work better.
'sensible' and 'Work better' for what goal?
Next, people would start talking about 'pragmatism', because that's a
favorite argument of certain people to oppose principled approaches,
as if being pragmatic didn't embed the very notion of working towards
a certain goal (often a different one) and within certain principles.
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FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/
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