On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 10:25:50AM +1100, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
I'm a little confused. Are you talking about this thread as 'our original discussions' or has then been discussed elsewhere and you are referring to these other threads. If so, could you supply some pointers to where?
Long ago before Fedora existed a bunch of Red Hat folks sat down and drafted a set of proposals for "What is Fedora", "Why is Fedora good", etc. One of the things we wanted was a free software distro buildable with free software.
I went through that discussion archive and although we discussed issues like extras dependancies on non-core for example we never discussed firmware at all. The extension of the current policy onto firmware files is not a planned and thought out event, its just happened.
Now I happen to think it is right to keep firmware seperate but thats not a debate we had when founding Fedora