Re: Reconsidering Debian’s Inclusion of Non-Free Firmware - A Call for Discussion

2025-03-07 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Friday, March 7, 2025 11:33:53 AM MST Simon Josefsson wrote: > pan...@disroot.org writes: > > I urge Debian to rethink its decision to officially include non-free > > firmware and correct the social contract. Instead of making non-free > > firmware the default, Debian should ensure that users co

Re: Reconsidering Debian’s Inclusion of Non-Free Firmware - A Call for Discussion

2025-03-07 Thread Mario Limonciello
On 3/7/25 12:42, Soren Stoutner wrote: On Friday, March 7, 2025 11:33:53 AM MST Simon Josefsson wrote: > pan...@disroot.org writes: > > I urge Debian to rethink its decision to officially include non-free > > firmware and correct the social contract. Instead of making non-free > > firmw

Reconsidering Debian’s Inclusion of Non-Free Firmware - A Call for Discussion

2025-03-07 Thread pandya
Dear Debian Community, I am Deep Pandya from Gujarat, India, and a long-time Debian user. I migrated from Windows to Ubuntu in 2013 and later explored the philosophy of the GNU project and the history of the free software movement. After trying GNU-endorsed Trisquel and PureOS, I finally land

Re: Reconsidering Debian’s Inclusion of Non-Free Firmware - A Call for Discussion

2025-03-07 Thread Simon Josefsson
pan...@disroot.org writes: > I urge Debian to rethink its decision to officially include non-free > firmware and correct the social contract. Instead of making non-free > firmware the default, Debian should ensure that users consciously > choose to install it while being made aware of the implicat

Re: Reconsidering Debian’s Inclusion of Non-Free Firmware - A Call for Discussion

2025-03-07 Thread Dirk Lehmann
Hello Debian-Devel mailing list =D imho, an interesting topic. In conjunction with [1] my first notion was: We should not guide that proprietary software is insecure. That's not correct, i.e. in the case of non-free-firmware it is nearly equivalent to say that the usage of proprietary hardware i