Re: Bug#239952: kernel-source-2.6.4: qla2xxx contains non-free firmware
Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Mar 26, Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> Actually, there's a very big difference. It's the difference between
>> "My system uses non-free code"
>> and
>> "The Debian system contains non-free code"
>>
>> Why is this so hard for some people to understand?
> As I said, this is hypocrisy.
You apparently don't know the meaining of "hypocrisy". Buy a dictionary and
look up "hypocrisy".
If *every* Debian-based system had to contain non-free code, that would be
one thing. (To some extent this is true, but all such code is hardwired
into ROM and Debian has no reason to distribute it at all.) If *some*
hardware requires non-free code, it seems perfectly reasonable to allow
people who have that hardware to have the non-free code, without adding it
wholesale to the collection of code Debian advertises as being "Free".
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