Hello, Now I am reading since some month discusions about "closed source firmware" in "Debian/main"... I am thinking, this discusions which exceeds more then 8000 (!!!) Messages already is for nothing! Puting firmware in in "contrib" or "non-free" IS the only solution. I do not understand why some people make Debian responsable for the distribution of "closed source firmware"... For example I have hardware which does not work in Win2000 or WinXP... So I need to download THE "firmware" from the manufacturs web site. So if anyone use hardware and must download the "closed source firmware" from the manufacturs website to get it running under M$ Windows why not the same way under Debian ? For example: Thomson/Alcatel Speedtouch 330 USB... There is a package "speedtouch" and I have this USB-ADSL-Modem... So I had to download the mgmt.o from the Alcatel web-site. I think, there is realy no problem to put closed-source firmware in "non-free" but make it easy to get the firmware downloaded (with wget) if we can not distribute it with Debian (like the mgmt.o) Greetings and happy coding Michelle -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 50, rue de Soultz MSM LinuxMichi 0033/3/88452356 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com)
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