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Re: LCC and blobs



On Dec 12, Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> 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 the user has to actively do something and taint his filesystem
> with the non-free files from the CD.
And why this whould be worse than having other parts of his computer
"tainted"?

> If the system boots off the CD, loads the firmware and only then loads
> the linux kernel then it would be different.
How?

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Marco | [9732 alA1GOpGQcP/.]

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