Re: LCC and blobs

[Måns Rullgård <mru@inprovide.com>]

md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri) writes:

> 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...

And every program depends on a computer, most of which is probably
constructed using a design language like VHDL, which is not far from
software.  NON-FREE!!!!

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Måns Rullgård
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