Re: Bug#239952: kernel-source-2.6.4: qla2xxx contains non-freefirmware
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Christoph Hellwig wrote:
| On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 03:23:47PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
|
|>>This is fine, until we start getting users complaining that Debian
|>>doesn't work on their system because the new installer include
|>>non-free by default.
|>
|>Tell them "Buy a system with hardware with free firmware, or use non-free
|>software".
|
|
| The only device with free firmware that comes to mind are old symbios or
| adaptec scsi controllers. For the other devices you just don't see the
| firmware because it's included in an flash device on the hardware. 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?
Actually, yes. That's a substantive difference for both practical and
legal purposes. Free firmware is better yet, of course. :-)
| This dousn more than silly.
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