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Auteur: KatolaZ
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Aan: Laurent Bercot
CC: dng
Onderwerp: Re: [Dng] straw poll, non-free firmware for installers
On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 07:06:08PM +0200, Laurent Bercot wrote:

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> But machine installation is not the time for advocacy. The decision
> has already been made, and at that point, telling users that it sucks
> isn't going to help anyone, it's just going to make the distribution
> look bad.
>


So in you opinion Debian looks bad to the users, since it does not
come with built-in firmware blobs in the default installer? If I had
to choose between making a few users more happy (as Ubuntu tried to
do) and adhering to a principled and motivated policy, I would go for
the latter.

Again, please don't forget that a lot of crap has been pushed forward
"because the average user could find it useful". The only problem I
have here is that I can't find anywhere a definition of what an
"average user" looks like...

My2cents

KatolaZ


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