[sorry for the broad CC] On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 07:23:41PM +1000, Sam Johnston wrote: > > There are lots of firmware images in your computer that don't have a > > OpenSource license on them, just that now some of these devices > > require the host to send the image to them before they can work > > properly. > > certainly... host adapters, hard drives, motherboards, video cards, storage > devices, digital cameras, etc. all have firmware that most likely contains a > lot of juicy information about the hardware that vendors may want to keep > secret. and we should accommodate for that - it's not like it's of much use > to us anyway Right. Kinda like how specs on the floppy controller chip to an 8-year old Macintosh Quadra aren't of any use to us, because they might let us (gasp!) read and write floppies under Linux. The crown jewels of Cupertino, that info is... -- G. Branden Robinson | What influenced me to atheism was Debian GNU/Linux | reading the Bible cover to cover. branden@debian.org | Twice. http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | -- J. Michael Straczynski
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