On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Nicu Buculei <nicu_fedora(a)nicubunu.ro> wrote:
On 06/12/2012 12:58 PM, drago01 wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Nicu Buculei wrote:
>>
>>
>> The point is we have a target audience:
>>
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User_base
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>> Our desired users ARE contributors.
>
>
> We do have a mission as well:
>
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview#Our_Mission
>
> "The Fedora Project consistently seeks to create, improve, and spread
> free/libre code and content. "
And Bingo! the mission is all about freedom.
I didn't deny that.
> Which you don't do by excluding users ... sure we want to
gain new
> contributors but that does not mean that we should exclude other
> users.
Not if it affects our freedom, is a problem of freedom versus convenience.
No because secure boot does not limit your freedom in *any* way. If
you want to hack on the kernel or other low level stuff flip a switch
in the firmware.
It is reasonable to expect this type of users to be able to do that.
If spreading to some users means losing some freedom, then I think
that is
against the mission.
We are not loosing any freedom we are implementing a technology that
makes fedora work out of the box on newer hardware.