Re: Leaving the guix project

[Alex Kost]

David Craven (2017-02-17 13:56 +0100) wrote:

>> I think if you posit a free software project that works in the way you
>> describe ("on its own"), it would work very much like Guile works
>> right now.
>
> An operating system has to work on all hardware. Asking people to buy a
> RYF approved device to run guixsd is no different than apple requiring you
> to buy an apple computer to run mac os x. Turning guixsd into an embedded
> system for RYF devices is not something I want to spend time and effort on. I
> can't with good conscience recommend to people to buy a usb wifi adapter to
> use guixsd when I believe they have much larger privacy issues in their 
> devices.
>
> To be comfortable contributing to a free project I need to know that people 
> are
> able to do whatever THEY want, with those contributions, and not what the FSF
> wants. The FSDG and GNU philosophy prevent me from offering any kind of help
> and require me to do it hidden. What really gets to me is that I feel
> - whether justly
> or not - that the FSF believes I need to feel shame for doing and recommending
> whatever I believe is best. The word "immoral" in this context is
> simply unacceptable
> to me.
>
> Compliance with the FSDG makes guix very much dependent on an
> external entity.

Thanks for this explanation.  Now I understand your point and I agree
with it!  I also don't like that by default GuixSD stricts itself to the
hardware supported by linux-libre.  If linux-libre didn't support all
the hardware on my computer, most likely I would not used GuixSD at all.

-- 
Alex