Ts'o calls for pragmatic Debian
Theodore Ts'o, Linux kernel developer and recently appointed CTO of the Linux Foundation, has called for more pragmatism from the Debian community. His comments were prompted by the recent bitter arguments over non-free firmware that lead to the resignation of Manoj Srivastava as Debian project secretary.
"It is the notion of Free Software as a philosophy, with no compromises, which has been the source of many of the disputes inside Debian" says Ts'o who goes on to look at the philosophical position of "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" and the absolutist language of clause one of the Debian social contract, which states "100 per cent free" and "never make the system require the use of a non-free component".
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