Re: Ubuntu is not free.
- From: meets@xxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 16:34:31 +0200
On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 09:39:32 -0400
ubuntu@xxxxxx wrote:
meets@xxxxxxx wrote:
_Translation_ :Please write a new ipw2100 firmware in a clean room environment and
knowing that it's not easy to install a proprietary
software does not interest me. What interest me is to get the
information. So, if I wish, I can install, for example, the
ipw2100-fw driver, I invoke pacman -S ipw2100-fw. On the other
hand, a message warns me that the driver is not free. Far from the
Ubuntu methods ;)".
release it under the GPL, then Ubuntu will no longer need to rely on
non-free software.
That is the only solution. Just read through this list, how many
entries are there for wireless networking issues posted? And you want
to force Ubuntu to make it _MORE_ difficult?
I ask you this: If my only networking is a card that requires thatHello,
ipw2100 firmware, how the hell am I supposed to download it? Network
drivers _must_ be on the CD.
As you will see in next post I'm preparing, I'm not a developper, I
even hardly know bash scripting, but I feel concerned very much.
One elegant solution to networking wifi issues would be to have a
choice among kernels when installing (and the firmware license
presented at this moment).
I would not want to look like being sarcastic, but It appears to me
suddenly that I don't have a driver fit for Linux for my laptop. The
winmodem is a ESS Technology ES2838/2839 SuperLink Modem, I went through
the diverses sites where a solution could be searched for, and there is
none for this one card (save an old text, a testimony it didn't work
very well, and under 2.2 kernel only, and no more page under the link
for the dl).
Can you fancy how many hundreds materials exist ? what if everyone
wants to have the matching drivers and firmwares inclueded in the
linux-image package ? What about stability for example, or lightness ?
(I still didn't compile my own kernel, after two years using a Linux
distribution).
Best greetings, Joyce Markoll.
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