On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 11:46:37PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Dec 04, Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote: > > > +1. I think firmware is something conceptually different than non-free > > software in general, and it would be good to give users a simple way to > > choose to enable non-free firmware without enabling other non-free > > software. > Me too. > Mostly everybody believed this until at some point we had "editorial" > changes to the Social Contract.
How exactly firmware is not software? We may take a concession and offer non-free or parts of non-free more prominently (as it's needed on modern x86, all wifi cards I've seen, etc), but let's not declare that non-software. Thus, until the situation improves: * let's make the non-free iso download more obvious * explain why it's bad. No quotes from Stallman -- they're opaque to most users, quotes from Linus would be better. On the other hand, there's only 297 non-free packages in Debian, thus I don't see a benefit in splitting that further. Most of it is firmware or docs with unmodifiable parts anyway. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ 14:13 < icenowy[m]> are they hot enough? ;-) ⣾⠁⢰⠒⠀⣿⡁ 14:17 < icenowy[m]> I think now in Europe it should be winter? Let ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ the BPi warm you ;-) ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ 14:17 <@KotCzarny> yeah, i have a pc to warm me ;)
