On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 02:42:31PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 01:21:35AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > | On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 11:01:46PM +0100, Oliver Kurth wrote: > | > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 01:25:24PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > | > The firmware is needed. Without it, the device is completely dumb. > | > But there are some devices which can store the fw permanently. Also, > | > the fw is distributed on their (windows) installation CDs. > | > > | > > One wonders why they don't just open up the source to the firmware > | > > drivers since they aren't planning on making any more updates to it. > | > > | > I am not sure about this. I think this is true only for the devices with > | > Intersil radio. > | > | Does this company even deserve our support? > > Possibly not, but I think a case could be made that Debian's users do. > (You know, that other priority, the one that isn't Free Software...) ...the one that is no more important than free software. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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