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Author: KatolaZ
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To: Clarke Sideroad
CC: dng
Subject: Re: [Dng] straw poll, non-free firmware for installers
On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 09:51:36AM -0400, Clarke Sideroad wrote:

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>
> With all the effort that has gone into this so far it deserves to be
> a major distro and it would appear to this guy watching from the
> fringe that the necessary brain power is here, but without a
> noticeably sized user base it will be seen through the eyes of
> blogger/journalist filtered history as the few weirdos who couldn't
> face the "future of computing".
>
> Do not forget the bigger picture.


Debian has been a major distro for almost 20 years now, is the largest
homogeneous package base in the free software arena, has inspired
literally thousands of other distributions, and has never installed
non-free stuff by default, or recommended the usage of third-party
proprietary video drivers, or promoted the installation of non-free
firmware...

I just don't see the problem in continuing along this path. This is
not what will kill Devuan, by any means.

My2Cents

KatolaZ

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