On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 09:35:01AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > I agree with the original proposal to make it easier to find an installer > that works (technically) on a broader range of systems, while > simultaneously being irritated that non-free nonsense is required for most > commercially-available systems. Our current approach seems to have an odd > logic gap to me: > > 1. Everything should be free software (yes) > 2. Non-free firmware is not free software (yes) > 3. Requiring it is a bug (yes) > 4. Therefore we will make it tedious and annoying to install Debian on > systems with that bug (?!) > 5. ??? > 6. More systems will stop requiring non-free software (profit!) > > We've been wandering around in step 5 for a long time now. I'm not sure > it's working. Also, soldering the blob onto the card is considered a correct fix of this problem by at least some people, because they care about bytes on disks more than about freedom.
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