Thread: 100% Free software handheld
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Luke-Jr is offline Luke-Jr
2009-10-15 , 17:42
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#26
Originally Posted by VulcanRidr View Post
If you look at Linux desktop distributions, the FSF only "blesses." what, 6 distributions? Out of 300-ish? Debian is not even considered completely free. And from what I can tell, Debian and Maemo are non-free for roughly the same reason: Hardware drivers.
No, Debian doesn't include any non-free drivers. FSF doesn't endorse Debian because they do have an (independent) repository of non-free software. Maemo is more like Ubuntu, except that AFAIK Maemo's non-free bits are legal.
Originally Posted by VulcanRidr View Post
As with my desktop system, if Nokia makes a hardware decision to use better hardware versus open drivers, I'm all for that.
Well, some of us actually care about freedom. And keeping their drivers proprietary doesn't make the hardware better. It's not like the battery charger is someone else's IP-- nothing is stopping Nokia from releasing that code at least.