GNU Boot is not free software?

viraptor · 2024-10-20T11:41:08 1729424468

Sorry for the misunderstanding, I referred to the mentioned guix there, not boot.

kleiba · 2024-10-20T11:50:52 1729425052

Ah, okay. Thanks for clarifying, I was getting confused. But guix is free software, too, no?!

akerl_ · 2024-10-20T11:56:23 1729425383

Yes. And the commenter is pointing out that if Guix has a bug, and the available fix is via non-free firmware, they will not pull in the fix. Users thus continue to be affected by the bug.

kleiba · 2024-10-20T19:16:53 1729451813

There's no reason a bug fix for a free software needs to be non-free.

dullcrisp · 2024-10-20T13:14:33 1729430073

They make it sound like they’ve discovered a secret

poincaredisk · 2024-10-20T13:38:25 1729431505

They make it sound like they're dogmatic about their views, which of exactly what they claim.

I, for contrast, use free software almost exclusively, but I have no moral problems with using proprietary drivers.

anthk · 2024-10-20T14:26:53 1729434413

Drivers are software too.

kleiba · 2024-10-20T19:16:11 1729451771

Hence "almost".

akerl_ · 2024-10-20T14:25:14 1729434314

I think you’re reading further into this than is there.