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Zacchiroli: working with FSF on Debian Free-ness assessment

Zacchiroli: working with FSF on Debian Free-ness assessment

Posted Jul 6, 2012 15:39 UTC (Fri) by RonP (guest, #81968)
In reply to: Zacchiroli: working with FSF on Debian Free-ness assessment by anselm
Parent article: Zacchiroli: working with FSF on Debian Free-ness assessment

I disagree with this. Take the case of Broadcom Wireless devices used in older Dell laptops. The reality is, if you had one and wanted Debian the only option was to use Broadcom's non-free drivers. I spent hours trying to figure out how to do this. Why should Debian be penalized for Broadcom's refusal to open source the driver? In my opinion Broadcom was the culprit not Debian and Debian was right in trying to help me deal with the practical issue of making my system work. Sometimes there are limits in choices.


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