Re: The big proposal

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On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 00:50 +0200, GoKhlaYeh wrote:
> After some month of playing  with SliTaz - and too less commit in this regards, but it's never too late - and some conversation with other contributors - mainly Christophe Roger and Julien Rabier - I wish to make some proposal to the whole team. It's about hudge changes in SliTaz in middle-term, so it's collectives choices and I hope that everybody has something to tell about.
> 
> As it's not about little hacks, important contradictions or too low enthousiathm will lead to abandon theses ideas as something realizable in SliTaz soon. Anyway I work on proof-of-concepts and tools, so it will lead to something in a way or another.
> 
> I want to open three subject here : 
> 1- Transform SliTaz in a 100% libre distribution

> 
> **The options :**
> 1)
> Make slitaz 100%libre, obviously everyone is free to maintain it's own repository with what he want inside, but no non-free content and no instructions about installing non-free content in all SliTaz website/code is the rule.
> Implication : some hardware will be less well supported or totaly unsuported in the short term, in other hand we contribute to the pression on hardware producer to make free hardware, and we will no more distribute potentialy highly dangereous binaries (only potentialy highly dangereous free code :D)

It may cause discomfort for some people, but for political and ethical
reasons, I think it's the way to go:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html

--domcox


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