Re: LCC and blobs

[Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Blars Blarson <blarson@blars.org> wrote:
> In article <[🔎] E1CdHw3-0003QG-00@chiark.greenend.org.uk> 
> mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes:
>>How does moving firmware from the disk to the hardware (therefore making
>>it harder to modify and more expensive) further the cause of free
>>software?
> 
> It makes it covered by the hardware manufacturers warentee.  If it is
> faulty, you can return it for repair or refund.

Under UK law, I have the same rights with faulty software. Do other
jurisdictions actually treat software and hardware differently in this
respect?

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