Bernhard Reiter reiter@fsfeurope.org writes:
The process is a high chance that there is more freedom in the end. Compromises like this - take proprietary stuff to liberate it - have been made by GNU hackers and FSF before, e.g. running on proprietary operating system when the other have been unpractical.
This is not the first time when FSFE representative used FSF and GNU Project as an excuse for distributing proprietary software. This is non sense, since neither FSF nor GNU had ever distributed proprietary software.
Please, choose a better example when justifying your actions. You're not like FSF, you're like Linspire or the Debian Project, etc.
It is just a proposal for doing something useful with the devices. Sending them back will also not be good, as the necessary public reasoning will be quite a lot of work and negative one as well.
Of course sending them back to the vendor is not nice, and it looks like according to FSFE's values, distributing proprietary software is much more acceptable. You value your "public image" more than software freedom.
Making a mistake is one thing. Trying to justify it in this way, so persitently, is something quite different -- it shows that you have betrayed our values.