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Re: Plans for ahead
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Riccardo Mottola |
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Re: Plans for ahead |
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Fri, 27 Nov 2015 17:31:28 +0100 |
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Hi,
Svetlana A. Tkachenko wrote:
In my view we should not do anything regarding Raspbian, because it
includes non-free components. To quote
https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/single-board-computers :
I think this vision is too extreme. I beg to differ in my personal
opinions here.
It is important to me that GNUstep remains free (in fact it is GPL/LGPL
and that is not going to change I suppose) and that it can be built
totally with Free tools on a Free operating system.
If, then, GNUstep is capable of running on proprietary operating
systems, that is an added benefit, that is more freedom. I am not taking
anything away, I am adding to it. Nobody is requiring you to use a
proprietary device with GNUstep. You just may.
To me, it makes sense to have a Free application running on a
proprietary OS. This expands my horizon. I can, for example, use the
same tool on my own Laptop running a free Unix, on a Mac or even at work
on Windows. My freedom is expanded.
While it is true that e.g. OpenBSD doesn't like the need of binary parts
on the PI to run, it is a on open platform, more open than e.g. most
Laptops and Workstations!
If you have any Laptop or Workstation with a nVidia card (which might
not be your choice) you need to run a proprietary driver nowadays! And
ATI doesn't look that better.
Taking your reasoing to the extreme, if you apply it not to just
single-board-computers, but to any computing device, there is almost
nothing that runs really open. WiFi, video cards...
I think the Raspberry is a very nice device which has momentum and is
bringing back fun into computing and has a lot of projects spurred by
it, many open source projects. It is surely benefical and GNUstep should
not miss this train, in fact, it should contribute to it.
*I am proud of running GNUstep on my Raspbian*.
Riccardo
- Re: Plans for ahead, (continued)
- Re: Plans for ahead, Germán Arias, 2015/11/30
- Re: Plans for ahead, Liam Proven, 2015/11/30
- Re: Plans for ahead, richard, 2015/11/29
- Re: Plans for ahead, Adam S, 2015/11/29
- Default preferences (was Re: Plans for ahead), Germán Arias, 2015/11/29
- Re: Default preferences (was Re: Plans for ahead), Gregory Casamento, 2015/11/29
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