Re: The "Free" Kernel In Debian Squeeze

Posted Dec 23, 2010 18:27 UTC (Thu) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)
In reply to: Re: The "Free" Kernel In Debian Squeeze by gmaxwell
Parent article: Re: The "Free" Kernel In Debian Squeeze

Why on earth isn't it enough to segregate the non-100%-free bits into a separate package, that you'd have to install concisiously?! You have to hack the kernel so it doesn't even contain the oh-so-dangerous filenames, lest some desperate person goes looking for the firmware to drive the otherwise brick machine? This is going beyond ridiculous. I'd assumed the first F in FSF meant "free", but freedom isn't someting you can force on people.

Please remember that without evil propietary, expensive, totally closed Unix systems there would never ever have been any GPL stuff nor FSF at all.