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From: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
To: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>,
	Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Installation: Load non-free wifi firmware (iwlwifi)
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2018 12:57:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87po3sjucx.fsf@fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87po3slnvb.fsf@gmail.com>

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Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Pierre,
>
> Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> linux-libre turns off the ability to load non-free firmware.  Why is
>> it so?
>
> I did a little bit of searching on the Internet, and it seems to me like
> the reason why Linux-libre turns off the ability to load non-free
> firmware is because the project does not want to induce you to use
> non-free software.

This is not true.  After all, you may wish to load a firmware that you
have developed yourself, but that is not possible either.  The problem
is a limitation of the kernel interface and/or the deblobbing script:

From an interview with Alexandre Oliva[0]:

"Indeed, I became aware that some users have got the idea that blocking
the loading of blobs is a feature. It's not; it's just a bug that's
quite difficult to fix. The decision on whether or not to use a piece of
software, be it Free or not, should belong to the users, and it's not
our intent to make that difficult."

[0] https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/blogs/lxo/2013-11-08-linux-libre-interview-by-bruce-byfield.en.html

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-03-25 10:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-02 17:25 Installation: Load non-free wifi firmware (iwlwifi) Pierre Neidhardt
2018-03-02 17:41 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-03-02 20:13   ` Carlo Zancanaro
2018-03-02 18:04 ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2018-03-05 12:32 ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2018-03-05 14:00 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-03-23 13:29   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-03-25  5:34 ` Chris Marusich
2018-03-25  6:14   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-03-25 10:21   ` Hartmut Goebel
2018-03-27  9:45     ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-03-27 22:05     ` Mark H Weaver
2018-04-13 11:55       ` Hartmut Goebel
2018-03-25 10:57   ` Marius Bakke [this message]
2018-03-29  5:11     ` Chris Marusich
2018-05-01 19:30   ` Librem (was: Installation: Load non-free wifi firmware (iwlwifi)) Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-02 18:07     ` Librem Joshua Branson
2018-05-03  6:47       ` Librem Chris Marusich
2018-05-03  7:44         ` Librem Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-09  6:07           ` Librem Chris Marusich
2018-05-09 16:58             ` Librem Nils Gillmann
2018-05-04 20:56         ` Librem Joshua Branson
2018-05-04 15:15     ` Librem (was: Installation: Load non-free wifi firmware (iwlwifi)) Christopher Lemmer Webber
2018-05-04 15:17       ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-04 16:32       ` Librem Mike Gerwitz
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-05-11 12:19 Installation: Load non-free wifi firmware (iwlwifi) 白い熊
2022-05-11 12:31 ` yasu
2022-05-12  7:37   ` 白い熊@相撲道
2022-05-12 16:00     ` zimoun
2022-05-12 20:19       ` David Lecompte
2022-05-12 23:53         ` Yasuaki Kudo
2022-05-13 11:59       ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2022-05-13  1:33     ` Maxim Cournoyer

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