• # Vive Theo.

    Posté par . En réponse à la dépêche Intel seulement open pour le business. Évalué à 10.

    On peut le traiter de tout ce que l'on veut, mais je pense que ce gars est vraiment indispensable, et croit en ce qu'il dit.
    Je lui ai envoyé un mail pour le remercier, et j'ai été surpris sa disponibilité (il m'a répondu très vite, et s'est montré très ouvert).

    Je pense que je peux en mettre le contenu ici:


    > I'd just like to thank you for everything you are doing for the Free Software.
    > You seem to be one of the very few people who _really_ care about freedom and
    > quality, and fight for it.

    I do.

    Even Debian is currently showing that they don't care about freedom.

    They will ship their next release with a number of totally illegal
    firmwares (as in, not just violating their rules, but violating
    copyright law since those were never released as free).


    Et c'est vrai que lorsque je vois ça, ça m'attriste:
    http://linuxfr.org/2006/08/29/21260.html

    Si même Debian laisse tomber, je suis vraiment pessimiste.

    Pire, dans un autre e-mail:


    The firmware problem is a Linux problem, not a Debian problem. The Linux people ship a kernel tree that has NUMEROUS licence violations. Everyone ignores the problem.



    Enfin:
    > When I read you managed to write a blob-free driver for the Intel pro/wireless
    > in 3.000 lines of code against the Linux one, which is a mere wrapper of 18.000
    > lines, I realized there was something wrong with Linux.

    Damien did it. He basically inserted an inter-poser between the Intel blob
    and the Intel driver on Linux, and it was so obvious what it did, so he just
    coded it into his own new driver. It was 30 minutes work, or something like
    that, he said.


    Alors, on a un problème ou pas?
    Vais-je devoir passer à OpenBSD pour avoir un système _vraiment_ libre? RMS lui-même a dit que Linux n'était pas libre:


    Linux, the kernel, is often thought of as the flagship of free software, yet its current version is partially non-free. How did this happen? This problem, like the decision to use Bitkeeper, reflects the attitude of the original developer of Linux, a person who thinks that "technically better" is more important than freedom.


    Je doute...