[FSFLA] Hiperbola: A fully free, stable, secure, simple, lightweight and long-term distribution

[willi uebelherr]

Dear Eder,

thank you very much for your last 3 emails to reflect the argumentation 
from our friend Adonay.

Dear friends,

i am not deep ivolved and informed about all distros. But Eder gave us a 
link to a text about the cooperation of Debian and FSF. And there, we 
can read, that the main repository from Debian is free. Not the 
"contrib" and not the "non-free".

That Debian declare it very open, it makes it us easier to act. To 
transform the non-free pakets to the free pakets. Then we can use, and 
help, the Debian repository and packeting system as our base and can 
focus our view about configuration, file-system structure, easy jump 
from one desktop environment to another.

We have two task:
The hardware driver development to make the parts non-non-free.
To support the users to use her prefered applications in her prefered 
best way of navigation and visualisation.

For us, independent of our base of technical experience and knowledge, 
it is a big field to create this knowledge and understanding of the 
users needs.

The FSFla is for me the only group in the FSF-space, they can do it.

many greetings, willi


Am 27/5/2017 um 10:55 schrieb Eder L. Marques:
> <forgive if the tone might sound rude, this is the type of conversation 
> that flows better in person>
> 
> On 26/05/2017 9:47 PM, Adonay Felipe Nogueira wrote:
>> Also, for the test to work, the patch must deal with important software,
>> such as completely replacing the kernel with one made from the scripts
>> of the GNU Linux-libre project, for example.
> 
> Do you know that there are [not-so-free Distros] which the kernel does 
> not contains any blobs right?
> 
>> Last, but not less important: being on the side of "user experience"
>> isn't bad. We are not against that. However, when this side takes
>> *precedence* over the side of the essential freedoms of the software,
>> then it starts to get problematic.
> 
> So essentially you rather prefer the user to be blindfolded to use only 
> the available free software, at sake that his hardware does not work, 
> the software that he needs does not exist.
> 
> Yes, this though is problematic.
> 
> Cheers,
> Eder