(Please try to not Cc me on every reply. My messages even contain a Mail-Followup-To header.) On Dec 11, Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net> wrote: > > And why it should be different if that firmware is distributed by the > > manufacturer on a CD instead of a flash EPROM chip? > > Because in that case the manufacturer is hurting the user by not > providing source, and we are against that. So this is just your personal opinion, not something required by the policy. Debian is pro and against many things, but I can't see a part of the policy which requires removing free software from the distribution to make a political point about software distributed by others. > The case where the manufacturer hurts the user by hardwiring the > program into an EPROM is also bad, but Debian is not here to work > against that. Why not? Your opinion again? This looks very arbitrary to me. -- ciao, | Marco | [9717 baWxxbS0wpbw6]
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