In my opinion, we should opt for usability. Unfortunately, we can not even use a software free proprietary drivers. My computer, for example, has a video card that is supported only by Mandriva and Opensuse because still do not have free drivers for her.



2010/9/19 Jeremiah Summers <jmiahman@gmail.com>

> On Sep 18, 2010, at 10:42 PM, Praveen A <pravi.a@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear Mageia folks,
>>
>> I believe getting FSF support for Mageia would be a huge boost for our
>> distro. Also there is no major distro in the list of FSF approved
>> distributions, yet. We could be the first major/established distro
>> (well we have the legacy from Mandrake days) there. We are very close
>> already, I believe we have to let go of only non-free firmware from
>> the kernel.
>>
>> Here is the FSF guidelines
>> http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html
>>
>> Can we commit to these guidelines?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Praveen

Please NO! I have watched this ruin other Linux distributions when it comes to usability. Let's look at it from a community stand point and not some hippies agenda. Thanks.

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