Re: Lost Trust

[Wouter Verhelst <wouter@grep.be>]

Op ma 31-05-2004, om 19:25 schreef John Hasler:
> Brian Nelson writes:
> > It makes absolutely no difference to the user if the firmware is loaded
> > from flash EPROM on the hardware or loaded by the Linux kernel in
> > software.
> 
> Let's just merge non-free right into main, then.

Please, try not to give such black-and-white responses. There's a world
of difference between "merging non-free right into main" and "ensuring a
driver, which requires non-free firmware to be loaded, works, instead of
just throwing the driver and the firmware entirely out of Debian, and
telling users that they're unlucky, and that they should've bought free
hardware, ha ha".

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