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   Anemofilia (anemofilia@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 06:02:39 JST Anemofilia

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   • mafe en españa

   @mafe Also, the fair perspective is that the hardware you would like to use, that doesn't even provides you free software drivers, is the one restricting your freedom of software choice. I'm certain there is no evil intention on a free software project like guix, but I wouldn't be able to say the same thing about intel, nvidia or amd.

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     Anemofilia (anemofilia@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 06:02:40 JST Anemofilia

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     @mafe Hm, I mean, no? Sure using Guix (with free software only) induces some hardware restrictions, but it isn't the same as saying "Guix violates your freedom of hardware choice" because from the the beggining, Guix isn't forcing you to use it, when you choose to use it, you also choose a subset of hardware. But, as long you do not use guix, you could also use any hardware you want, there's your freedom.

     I would agree with your statement if there was at least some kind of societal enforcement that obliged you to use Guix, but since there isn't, it really sounds like "Isn't signing a contract, which I don't need to sign, and that imposes me restrictions I don't agree with, restricting my freedom?", uhh, bro, just don't sign it, maybe?

     Also, as @mekeor said, you can use the nonguix channel to get the blobbed kernel and other proprietary stuff.

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     mafe en españa (mafe@layer8.space)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 06:02:42 JST mafe en españa

     Isn't the #Guix System's way of forcing you to "choose hardware that respects your freedom" violating my freedom of hardware choice?

     I didn't put that Intel WiFi into that #framework13 laptop and there are Upstream Linux drivers for that since Kernel 5.10!

     WTF is wrong with you?!