From: John Sullivan <johns@fsf.org>
To: Henry Jensen <hjensen@gmx.de>
Cc: Stefan Nagy <stefan.nagy@posteo.net>,
"Taiidan@gmx.com" <Taiidan@gmx.com>,
libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org
Subject: Re: Purism is not free hardware
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2018 12:41:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d10dxypk.fsf@wjsullivan.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180309090622.3f4d9cd7@subnote.jensen.local> (Henry Jensen's message of "Fri, 9 Mar 2018 09:06:22 +0100")
Henry Jensen <hjensen@gmx.de> writes:
> Am Fri, 09 Mar 2018 01:33:12 +0100
> schrieb John Sullivan <johns@fsf.org>:
>
>> "Taiidan@gmx.com" <Taiidan@gmx.com> writes:
>>
>> > Again I still can't understand as to why purism gets so much air
>> > time on the FSF website and the tech news media yet legitimately
>> > libre hardware gets none.
>>
>>
>> > "PureOS" is simply a debian clone used to peddle non-free laptops
>> > and now purism has obtained an implied endorsement from the FSF.
>>
>> That is not an accurate description. PureOS is an endorsed
>> distribution because it has committed to upholding the Guidelines for
>> Free System Distribution. It made a number of important changes from
>> Debian in order to achieve that.
>
> PureOS uses the same Linux kernel as Debian (i.e. not Linux-Libre),
> which some people regard as a bug, because log messages like this
> appear:
>
> iwlwifi: 0000:03:00.0 firmware: failed to load iwlwifi-6000g2a-6.ucode
>
> which indicates, that the kernel is looking for a non-free firmware
> blob. By reading this message in the log file a user could learn about
> it and be tempted to install this non-free software.
>
Yes, we have been revisiting this question and will publish our analysis
soon on the mailing list you linked to..
(For everyone's understanding, the nonfree firmware is not present on
the system; it is an issue of potentially recommending/suggesting.)
-john
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-09 11:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-07 22:04 Purism is not free hardware Taiidan
2018-03-08 3:12 ` Michael Downey
2018-03-08 16:05 ` Stefan Nagy
2018-03-08 17:26 ` Stefan Nagy
2018-03-08 23:33 ` John Sullivan
2018-03-09 0:16 ` Taiidan
2018-03-09 0:33 ` John Sullivan
2018-03-09 0:35 ` Taiidan
2018-03-27 22:07 ` Taiidan
2018-03-09 8:06 ` Henry Jensen
2018-03-09 11:41 ` John Sullivan [this message]
2018-03-09 12:40 ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
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