Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

[Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net>]

Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle@freenet.de> writes:

> What dou you think about the idea, that because non-free drivers and 
> firmwares are droped from "main" we write wrapers and loaders which
> GET the drivrs and firmwares from the manufacturer provided DriverCD's.

This is a very suboptimal solution.  Such wrappers are necessarily in
contrib, and are a second-best approach.

Better we spend our time actually supporting the hardware with free
software. 

Thomas