On 01/03/2017 05:43 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
Administrator wrote:
But coming back to the original subject, and what the project can/should do to make the freedom more visible - I feel from the discussion we have a majority for the proposal that the usage of the non-OSS repo should be an option, not a default.
I disagree. You possibly have a majority of the people who’ve commented, which isn’t even close.
Absolutely. I say our (openSUSE's) focus should be a default installation that works and requires a minimum of customization for our typical user.
IMHO, making the non-OSS repo an option is just silly and achieves absolutely nothing except potentially unhappy users.
I agree with this, there was a consensus that adding a option to the installer allowing people to remove the non oss repo was a reasonable idea (As long as the user is warned about what may not work). There was no consensus about disabling it by default though, or going any further. -- Feel free to skip rant below -- While I agree the FSF has done good work in the past I don't agree with everything there pushing for now particually some forms of firmware blobs that are far more hardware then software. I also have no problems with non free software for some things games being one (game devs are poorly paid to start with without having to work for free). Personally if there was a non free office solution that allowed me to be more productive and was less annoying then the current ones on Linux i'd probably use that as well as office suites are boring and I don't want to work on them in my spare time so why should I expect others too? As long as I can put it in a format that can be read by other tools. "Software Freedom" should be the freedom for users to use the best piece of software for what they want to achieve and to easily swap to something else should they choose to. This is different to the FSF's definition which is why I disagree with them. For me openSUSE with some non free software is the best way to achieve that mix -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adeliade Australia, UTC+9:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B