Re: Bug#239952: kernel-source-2.6.4: qla2xxx contains non-free firmware
Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Mar 25, Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 17:21:44 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
>> > Refusing to distribute firmware files is just hypocrisy, because
>> > everyone of us has some non-free firmware in his own computer.
>> It's a big difference if we _have_ it (e.g. also microcode in the CPU,
>> BIOS, etc.) on our local machine, or if Debian distributes it in binary
>> form.
> No, there is no difference. Your hardware needs some non-free code to
> work, and there is nothing you can do about it. You may choose to
> pretend that it does not by removing it from debian, but you will be
> still using non-free code.
Actually, there's a very big difference. It's the difference between
"My system uses non-free code"
and
"The Debian system contains non-free code"
Why is this so hard for some people to understand?
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