Re: Lost Trust

[Andrew Pollock <apollock@debian.org>]

On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 08:11:53PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> 
> Please come up with a meaningful difference between putting non-free 
> peripheral software needed only for a few rare pieces of hardware (the actual 
> case with the tg3 driver) into 'main', and putting any other piece of 
> non-free  software in 'main'.

I would *not* call tg3 driven hardware rare. It's becoming more and more
common in new boxen that one purchases. Seems to be rapidly displacing
Intel, which isn't necessarily a good thing, given Broadcom's track record
for disclosing pertinent information.

regards

Andrew