Re: Firmwares left
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Manoj Srivastava schrieb:
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:08:45 +0200, Frederik Schueler <fs@debian.org>
said:
>
>> Hello, as far as the GPL and BSD licensed firmwares are concerned, the
>> licenses of these firmwares are compliant with the DFSG and will not
>> be castrated from the kernel, see the GR007/2006 discussion.
>
>> As for the rest: our priority is free software, who cares about users?
>
>> tg3: Drop. The firmware should be pruned and the driver deactivated
>> until someone shows up with a patch upstream accepts.
>
> While I am a user of this driver (my laptop came with a broadcom
> gigabit card), I do appreciate your caring for user freedoms and
> dropping this driver.
>
> thanks for doing the right thing, even if it means I can't use
> lan0.
>
> manoj
One Laptop, doesn't sound like a problem a couple a hundred servers,
yep that's a Problem.
So time to get Managemet draft a letter to Customers and explain 'em
that all there systems get switched to Ubuntu
cause of a driver debian doesn't feel is free enough.
greets Uwe
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