Re:“Blob-free OpenBSD kernel needed”
by cypher543 on Saturday June 06, 2015 @12:25PM
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The OpenBSD developers are concerned with working on OpenBSD, not leading some crusade against closed-source firmware. If it bothers you that much, then do as Theo says and don't use hardware that requires the blobs. If there are no open alternatives, why is that OpenBSD's problem?
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Re:“Blob-free OpenBSD kernel needed”
by vezzy-fnord on Saturday June 06, 2015 @12:32PM
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Not to mention the implication that the BSD and Linux communities don't care about software freedom is patently false. The two communities have very much been willing to fork or reimplement things from scratch because of licensing reasons all the time, even when the result ends up worse (e.g. Debian's cdrkit forked from cdrtools).
It comes down to how important freedom is in software development, and whether freedom is an opportunity for hardware developers to piggy back on the efforts of enthusiasts and volunteer developers or involves something more fundamental than that.