On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 07:21:55AM -0400, Dale E Martin wrote: > > BTW, I think it would be very very cool to have a completely free hardware > platform. I work on free EDA/CAD tools, so hopefully in some small way I > am contributing to this goal. But to argue that software cannot be truly > free without a free hardware platform; I'm not buying that one, despite > fully understanding your argument. >
Sorry for my bad english, but that's exactly my point of view: not all software can be truly free without a free hardware. At kernel level if anyone would get a working system, he has to accept some compromises. And those compromises could be larger in a not so far future. Someone thinks that this kind of compromises should not be accepted. Ok, so we will have a less usable system and probably we'll lose many users for that. Or probably some well-known Debian-based commercial distros will get great advantages, because they'll integrate stuff which Debian will miss. I have the suspect that this choice will marginalize Debian in respect to other distros. I'm not sure this will be a great benefit for the free software community, at last. What's next step? Remove non-free support at all with a new GR? -- Francesco P. Lovergine
