Author: Anto Date: To: dng Subject: Re: [Dng] straw poll, non-free firmware for installers
On 04/06/15 13:23, KatolaZ wrote: > On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 11:36:22AM +0100, David Harrison wrote:
>> On 04/06/2015 02:52, dng-request@??? wrote:
>>> If it is the resounding will of the community to absolutely not ship the
>>> default installer with this approach, then I will withdraw from Devuan
>>> and someone else can take over the maintenance of the packages I've been
>>> working on.
>> Daniel, you're doing a great job and I think your proposal is
>> entirely reasonable. Please stay with us.
> Guys, I admit I have seen very good points on both sides (which are
> indeed just two slightly different aspects of the *same* side, that is
> trying to avoid non-free software to proliferate), but I genuinely
> don't undesrstand the "either we all play as I like or I withdraw my
> own toys and go play alone elsewhere" approach :(
>
> Peace
>
> KatolaZ
>
Hello KatolaZ,
I don't know Daniel and everybody else in this mailing list. So this is
my own personal opinion.
I don't think Daniel meant to force everybody to agree on his approach.
It is good to have volunteer like him who provides the option for the
users to express their opinions. However, I think it should be
understandable that he definitely cannot implement all the requested
combinations, especially the ones conflicting with his approach. That is
most probably due to his limited volunteer time that he is willing to
spend. So I think it is fair that he wrote to withdraw it and offered
someone else to take over what he is currently working on if most users
disagreed with his approach.