On Sun, Mar 09, 2025 at 01:32:47PM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
Another way to look at this outcome, and the one I personally prefer by a wide margin, is that it'd be very cool to have them, but at this time their utility is … questionable, given that I personally own zero (out of umpteen) computers that would work with such an image.
And because if someone wants to avoid non-free firmware they can install on a computer that doesn't require it--meaning that no non-free firmware can/will be loaded. So the entire benefit of this exercise is to not have "icky non-free firmware" sitting unused on the install media. That seems like an utterly trivial result which can't possibly justify the level of effort involved.
As when this came up originally, I do not understand how it can be considered "freer" to actively prevent people from having an option, when those who don't want that option can simply not use it.
