Re: Bug#71130: depends on non-free _hardware_?
>>"Jacob" == Jacob Kuntz <jpk@cape.com> writes:
Jacob> packages.debian.org has a description for contrib that states:
Jacob> Contrib
Jacob> Packages in this area are free themselves but depend
Jacob> on other software or hardware that is not free.
Jacob> ^^^^^^^^
Jacob> non-free hardware suggests the existance of free hardware. is
Jacob> this a typo, or have i been ripped off?
Of course there is free hardware. Perhaps not free as in beer,
but free as in adhering to open, and free standards.
When we say free software, we are more interested in freedome,
not in cost, really. The same applies to hardware.
manoj
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