On 2021-01-18 16:35:01 +0000 (+0000), Steve McIntyre wrote: > Marc Haber wrote: > > > >I was not aware of that feature. It is good to have that, but I would > >be embarrassed to seriously suggest this way because we can't manage > >to get WLAN working in the installer for political reasons. > > Are we seriously just going to describe our Free Software goals as > "political reasons"? Should we just abandon them?
Some (and I would argue the most cumbersome) challenges around WLAN support are governmental. Countries where "software radios" cannot legally allow the consumer to alter their frequencies, for example. I would also refer to those as "political reasons" even if they're not directly tied to the politics of software freedom within Debian. And yes, governments telling vendors that they're breaking the law and can be fined or put out of business for allowing their users to alter the way a device functions is still a software freedom concern, just one over which Debian may hold little sway. -- Jeremy Stanley
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