Purism Librem 15 (Linux Journal)

Posted Jan 2, 2015 18:59 UTC (Fri) by alvieboy (guest, #51617)
In reply to: Purism Librem 15 (Linux Journal) by coriordan
Parent article: Purism Librem 15 (Linux Journal)

> And anti-slavery laws are a limit on my freedom to enslave or to decide to agree to be a slave.

You're exaggerating here.

> If the user wants to add other repositories, or install non-free software by any other means, they are free (unrestricted) to do so. That's their business.

> Where's the problem?

This is the problem: "Of course, if you do want to use any proprietary software (like certain multimedia codecs or official Flash plugins) you will have to hunt for those on your own.".

I may have (I confess) misread this sentence. For me, "to hunt" means I'll have quite a harsh time seeking the proper software, and installing it.

If one can still add the non-free Debian repo, and if everything works (I mean, if no dependency is broken in purpose), then I am OK with it.

Purism Librem 15 (Linux Journal)

Posted Jan 2, 2015 20:20 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

>I may have (I confess) misread this sentence. For me, "to hunt" means I'll have quite a harsh time seeking the proper software, and installing it.

You are reading too much into a couple of words. It just means you will have to find such sources yourself.

>If one can still add the non-free Debian repo, and if everything works (I mean, if no dependency is broken in purpose), then I am OK with it.

Nobody has deliberately broken anything here afaik. You should be to add anything you want to.