On Dec 20, Brian Thomas Sniffen <bts@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri) writes: > >> differently depending on the presence of additional software -- the > >> kernel, for example, or the firmware. > > I'm not doing this either. > Great. Then the driver operates differently depending on the presence > of additional software -- it needs a Linux kernel and the firmware. But then drivers also "depend" on "additional softwares" stored in flash EEPROMs in devices. > Without either of those, it does not operate. This is a dependency. But then ICQ clients "depend" on non-free ICQ servers... -- ciao, | Marco | [9952 daGqzkCAC8yJA]
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