bts@alum.mit.edu wrote: >I think that requiring a hardware upgrade to support behavior is >irrelevant to free software. Firmware that's part of the hardware is >part of the hardware. Firmware that looks like software is software. >If Debian *could* ship it, it's software. This distinction is not clear at all to me. What if I take a dump of the flash EPROM chip? Does this magically makes the firmware a software? -- ciao, Marco