Re: [Tails-dev] NSA tails and closed code

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Author: Austin English
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To: The Tails public development discussion list
CC: syster
Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] NSA tails and closed code
On Tue, Jun 15, 2021, 16:42 syster via Tails-dev <tails-dev@???> wrote:

> What I always thought what would be nice:
>
> Having 2 versions of Tails. One pure and free, and one with proprietary
> code that is needed to run some hardware.
>
> If one has a wifi adapter that runs on free software, most if not all of
> the proprietary code that is included in Tails is of no use for that
> person, at least that's how I understand it. Such an wifi adapter can be
> be bought for the cost of an USB stick.
>


That has the downside of doubling development/testing efforts, and
confusion for users.

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