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Re: Bug#239952: kernel-source-2.6.4: qla2xxx contains non-free firmware



On Mar 26, Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> wrote:

> There is no shortage of "modern" hardware without these problems. I
Yes, there is for some categories of hardware: all USB DSL modems,
many (all?) recent DVB-S cards, many recent and very common wifi network
cards.
You may not /need/ this kind of hardware, but other people do.

> don't own any hardware with these problems. It's not like users don't
> have a choice in the matter. Your argument is equivalent to "I bought
> a winmodem so Debian should ship Windows".
It's obviously not, as all the hardware I'm discussing has proper free
linux drivers.

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Marco | [5380 unYjdMP14r.AY]

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