On Wed, 09 Nov 2016, Zlatan Todoric wrote: > >tl;dr - an 100% free distro should not include, recommend nor > > facilitate the installation of non-free software. a bios > > firmware is also distributed software > > We do not recommend nor faciliate installation of non-free software, and if > the bios firmware is the issue then all OSes fail on any hardware post 2009 > - but I thought OS is separate from hardware in this discussion, maybe I am > wrong.
this is the misunderstanding then. because you are recommending the option of getting your distribution through a pre-installed medium (a laptop PC) which includes non-free software (as its bios), then its hard to "separate from hardware in this discussion". People here evaluate a sort of "user journey" to see if, as someone approaching your distribution, one would ever be proposed to use/install non-free software. That it should be so it is clearly stated in the 100% free guidelines published by the FSF. I hope this helps clearing the misunderstanding. ciao
