On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 04:41:51AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > We still need some non-free software for interfacing with > closed and non-free hardware. > > We have printer drivers (PIPS?), and other things, for example. Some might consider that a good argument, until one realizes that Debian doesn't have the power to actually solve that problem. A lot of driver software isn't even licensed such that we can distribute in non-free. Consider the Matrox proprietary XFree86 drivers, various softmodem drivers like Lucent's[1], etc. So, does continuing to distribute the non-free archive mean that we can proudly delcare that Debian GNU/Linux Will Support Your Hardware? Well, no. [1] http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/Ltmodem.html -- G. Branden Robinson | You can have my PGP passphrase when Debian GNU/Linux | you pry it from my cold, dead branden@debian.org | brain. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Adam Thornton
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