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

[Chris Evans]

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From: Jeremiah Summers <jmiahman at gmail.com>
To: Mageia general discussions <mageia-discuss at mageia.org>
Sent: Sun, September 19, 2010 3:15:51 AM
Subject: Re: [Mageia-discuss] FSF backing would be a huge boost for Mageia



> 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
>

Please NO! I have watched this ruin other Linux distributions when it comes to 
usability. Let's look at it from a community stand point and not some hippies 
agenda. Thanks.


+1 The ease of installing multimedia codecs and graphics card drivers is one of 
the things I have always loved about Mandriva.



      
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