Re: LCC and blobs

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri) writes:

> On Dec 10, Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org> wrote:
>
>> > You may want to take a look at debian-legal, because some people there
>> > think that even free drivers for hardware devices which need an
>> > externally loaded firmware are not acceptable for main.
>> I presume you're referring to drivers which are useless without a non-free
>> firmware blob.
> I know about no drivers which are useless without a non-free firmware,
> while I know about a huge number of hardware devices which are useless
> without a non-free firmware.
>
> -- 
> ciao, |
> Marco | [9701 brFkyuAiot0mo]

So the drivers without the firmware are usefull (i.e. make the
hardware work) but the hardware doesn't work without firmware
(i.e. make the driver fail)?

You contradict yourself.

MfG
        Goswin