On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 11:17:41AM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
Well, the problem I have with the Foundations is that by the way we
have defined them, we've very clearly identified them as "equal" to
one another. I'm not sure that this is sensible, particularly with
regards to the "Freedom" Foundation. It's very clear that there exist
in our community some hard-liners who will never be satisfied with a
product that in any way allows the use of proprietary apps (I've seen
proposals in the past to disallow Fedora from booting if the kernel is
tainted, for example).
And those proposals haven't gone anywhere, because we *do* consider the
balance.
There are also people in our community who think we *should* be shipping
Adobe Flash and the Nvidia drivers and whatever else. I don't agree, just
like I don't agree with the people who think we need to strip out binary
firmware. But we've got a foundation for that too -- "Like any friends, we
occasionally disagree on details, but we believe in finding an acceptable
consensus to serve the interests of advancing free software."
--
Matthew Miller -- Fedora Project -- <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
"Tepid change for the somewhat better!"