La Salle Debain
Open Source @ Consolidated Braincells Inc.
This is a weblog I'm keeping about my work on Debian and any other useful Debian related info I come across. It is not meant to compete with other news sources like Debian Weekly News or Debian Planet. Mostly it is just a way for me to classify and remember all the random bits of information that I have floating around me. I thought maybe by using a blog it could be of some use to others too. Btw. "I" refers to Jaldhar H. Vyas, Debian developer for over 8 years. If you want to know more about me, my home page is here.
The name? Debain is a very common misspelling of Debian and la salle de bains means bathroom in French.
If you have a comment to make on something you read here, feel free to write to me at jaldhar@debian.org.
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So in the end I decided to vote in the Lenny/DFSG violations GR despite lingering apathy. Option 5 won so hopefully we can get on with releasing the next stable version of Debian.
For giggles, I explained all the issues to my daughter Shailaja and asked for her opinion. Her advice is that we should not worry about firmware being non-free because it could take a long time to sort out and in the mean time people would get fed up of waiting for Debian and go somewhere else. However we should make a big list of all the devices that require the binary blobs and tell everyone not to use them. To this end she has made the following sign you can copy and send to recalcitrant hardware manufacturers.
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