On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:49:00PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > After all if they don't learn that their wifi requires non-free software > to work, then what is the point of even having Debian promise to be all > free software? Mostly because it's firmware; it doesn't run on the CPU. I for one am happy that it's not in a ROM, but then I guess it should probably be in an EEPROM and not be loaded upon driver activation. Kind regards Philipp Kern PS: No, I'm not happy it's closed. But I find it riduculous if you add another CPU that you cannot control to load firmware, like a free mobile handset did. And then it's free!!111 It's not all clear to me what a GR on a seperate section for firmware would yield. (Especially given the fact that users now need to activate the whole of non-free to get the firmware they need. Ridiculous as well.)
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