The 2.6.28-libre kernel is out

Posted Dec 27, 2008 22:55 UTC (Sat) by jch (guest, #51929)
In reply to: The 2.6.28-libre kernel is out by Los__D
Parent article: The 2.6.28 kernel is out

While most of us do agree to use non-Free software when it's significantly better than the Free equivalent, we try at least to be aware that the software we use is not Free. While we might not be willing to use the all-Free variants of popular software, we are grateful to the people who do the tedious job of categorising software into Free and non-Free.

So please keep your oh-so-smart comments about non-Free VHDL for yourself. Most of us are grateful to the authors of all-Free distributions for the work they do.

The 2.6.28-libre kernel is out

Posted Dec 28, 2008 11:40 UTC (Sun) by Los__D (guest, #15263) [Link]

Closed firmware in hardware is absolutely not any better than closed firmware bundled with the kernel.

In fact, it's worse, since it's impossible to reverse engineer.

Anyway, if the announcement had been served with respect to the original kernel that they handicapped, I'd keep my trap shut, but it wasn't.