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Re: non-free firmware: driver in main or contrib?



On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 20:36 -0400, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
> It's a perfectly reasonable means to discriminate.  One is *in the
> hardware*.  If I buy a widget, I don't care whether it uses firmware
> in an eeprom or a well-trained gerbil.  It's a box.  Software on my
> CPU is different.

The firmware is never executed on your CPU. 
-- 
Matthew Garrett | <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>



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