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On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 11:57:05PM +0000, Simon Waters wrote: > Matt is referring to binary blobs of non-free software shipped in the > Linux kernel within Debian GNU/Linux. Not "non-free" but stuff in > mainstream Debian. Actually, both. > Debian has again decided they will ship these in Etch. MJ Ray says this won't be the case in future by default, though. > There are a fair few mainstream network cards and other things that only > work with non-free firmware loaded, so not shipping it would break quite > a lot of Debian installs. Well, it would break the Debian non-free installer, which is something I'd be more in favour of seeing. > Matt is wrong, just not in this way ;) I don't think I'm wrong. I think I'm just not willing to compromise on this issue. matt -- Matt Lee Chief Webmaster, GNU Project - http://www.gnu.org/ - Free as in Freedom Free Software Foundation - Free Software, Free Society - http://www.fsf.org/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html