[Mageia-discuss] FSF backing would be a huge boost for Mageia

[SinnerBOFH]

I don't believe that adhering to FSF will provide anything to Mageia/Mandriva users. 

I'm used to PLF, Flash plug-ins, video drivers, excellent hardware detection and other things that are part of the Mandriva experience. 

Let's not shoot ourselves in the foot just for the sake of a small publicity stunt: if Debian doesn't make it to their list, I don't think we should even try. 

My 2cents. 

Salut,
Sinner

On Sep 18, 2010, at 10:42 PM, Praveen A <pravi.a at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Mageia folks,
> 
> I believe getting FSF support for Mageia would be a huge boost for our
> distro. Also there is no major distro in the list of FSF approved
> distributions, yet. We could be the first major/established distro
> (well we have the legacy from Mandrake days) there. We are very close
> already, I believe we have to let go of only non-free firmware from
> the kernel.
> 
> Here is the FSF guidelines
> http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html
> 
> Can we commit to these guidelines?
> 
> Thanks
> Praveen
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