[Dev] Misleading information in EOMA68 news

pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) pelzflorian at pelzflorian.de
Tue Aug 16 21:37:50 GMT 2016


On 08/16/2016 09:06 PM, Tiberiu-Cezar Tehnoetic wrote:
>> Using the term does not go
>> against the free software principles IMHO like many of the “words to
>> avoid” do.
> 
> Thank you for your opinion. Still, don't you think that if people
> consider to be OK the hardware labeled as "free software friendly", then
> this undermines the importance of high priority projects such as
> Libreboot (free BIOS) and Lima/Tamil (free GPU drivers)?
> 

We could probably list better words for each use case of “free software
friendly”: “Hardware that is compatible with free software”, “free
hardware”, etc. My concern however is that with this precedent, every
fuzzy word would need to be added to the list of “words to avoid”.

> PS As previously stated, I'm not a Parabola hacker and I only speak for
> myself. My opinion shouldn't count for the consensus.
> 

Me neither.




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