Karl Goetz wrote:
The larger problem is the plugins (i thought)
This may be true. I'm not sure, but it's really the same issue -
Firefox, by default, points users to non-free software and this should
be changed. There are many Free plugins for Firefox, like
mozilla-plugin-vlc in the repos and the GNASH browser plugin.
Ndiswrapper is a bit more troublesome, in that most of its purpose is
to run non-free drivers. However, there are Free Software drivers for
really? i didn't know about that.
Yep. An example can be found at http://cipe-win32.sourceforge.net/ as
linked from the NDISWrapper project page. This issue came up regarding
ndiswrapper on Debian (I believe several times) a while back as well.
Google-ing "debian ndiswrapper contrib" yields several such results.
All programming languages can be used for both types of software -
talking about them doesn't make your point.
Actually I think it does... the point I'm making is that the tools in
question are freedom agnostic and by removing a specific tool because it
MIGHT be used to run non-free software really seems like we're trying to
police the user. Is that really what freedom is about? Deliberately
making life more difficult for those who would use non-free components
AS WELL AS those who want to run atypical Free Software? My personal
ideal situation is one in which gNewSense provides absolutely no
non-free software by default, and does not link to or advocate the use
of non-free software, but does not waste the effort to remove components
that are Free in and of themselves.
removing anything that interacts with non-free isnt functional...
unless we dont need openoffice :)
kk
I don't get your meaning, sorry. :(
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