On Dec 25, Brian Thomas Sniffen <bts@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > > Yet, CF is actually chips --- often the same chips as used to hold > > firmware distributed with hardware. Thus, it's all hardware. > Sure. It's on a medium for software exchange, thus it's software. If > it were an integral component of a device, it'd be hardware. I've This is an interesting criteria, but which part of the policy or of the social contract specifies it? > never been confused when looking at such things; the closest case I've > found to confusing is the MP3 player, which has its OS on disk. I'm > inclined to say that it's software to the MP3 player, an architecture > which Debian does not support. It's hardware, a drive, to the > (Intel?) Debian-supported PC to which it's connected. So a driver for an USB MP3 player requiring a non-free firmware is OK for you, but a driver for an USB DSL modem requiring a non-free firmware is not? -- ciao, Marco
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