Re: Bug#239952: kernel-source-2.6.4: qla2xxx contains non-freefirmware
Scripsit Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> So you say a device is evil because it doesn't have a flash to store
> the firmware but wants it downloaded from the host harddisk?
You're missing the point entirely. The point is not whether the user
has some non-free code on his machine or not. In fact, our Social
Contract goes to lots of pain to explain that we do not have anything
agains users having non-free code on their machines. It's not "evil"
or anything else.
The point is wheter Debian should *distribute* non-free code to people
while we smile and point to the Social Contract that claims that all
code people receive *from us* is free.
> > Eventually, in this nightmare scenario, all hardware will require non-free
> > code to activate, and that code will control what you can do with the
> > hardware....
> Most hardware already does. Starting with the firmware/bios on 99% of
> the computers in the world.
Rubbish. My computer does contain non-free bios (for all I know), but
the point is that Debian has not supplied any of this non-free code to
me and claimed that it was Free Software.
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