Re: LCC and blobs

[Brian Thomas Sniffen <bts@alum.mit.edu>]

Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org> writes:

> Brian Thomas Sniffen writes:
>
>> Måns Rullgård <mru@inprovide.com> writes:
>> >
>> > You can pull the chip from the socket, copy the contents to disk,
>> > and
>>
>> I probably can't.  No good with that sort of thing.  Software on disk
>> is software.  Also, I could pull  the Pentium off my motherboard, scan
>> its contents to disk, and open that in any editor I like -- right?
>
> Lots of people cannot write or modify C code, but we accept as free
> many programs that include C code.  The user being inexpert in some
> technique does not render a thing non-free.

But something being *not software* does render it *not software*.

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Brian Sniffen                                       bts@alum.mit.edu