Wireless in FC4

[Rodd Clarkson]

On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 09:49 -0500, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 10:25:50AM +1100, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> > I'm a little confused.  Are you talking about this thread as 'our
> > original discussions' or has then been discussed elsewhere and you are
> > referring to these other threads.  If so, could you supply some pointers
> > to where?
> 
> Long ago before Fedora existed a bunch of Red Hat folks sat down and drafted
> a set of proposals for "What is Fedora", "Why is Fedora good", etc. One of the
> things we wanted was a free software distro buildable with free software.
> 
> I went through that discussion archive and although we discussed issues like
> extras dependancies on non-core for example we never discussed firmware at all.
> The extension of the current policy onto firmware files is not a planned and
> thought out event, its just happened.
> 
> Now I happen to think it is right to keep firmware seperate but thats not a
> debate we had when founding Fedora
> 
Alan,

Thanks for the insight.

Maybe it's time that this discussion/debatee was had.  Given the trend
toward storing firmware elsewhere that the actual hardware, this needs
to be resolved (one way or the other).


Rodd