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

[Muhammad Najmi Ahmad Zabidi]

adhere to FSF vs usability?

On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 11:03 AM, SinnerBOFH <sinnerbofh at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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