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Re: LCC and blobs



[let's see if I can keep from screwing up the formatting on this one.]

On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 04:26:59PM -0800, Ken Arromdee wrote:
> I think the scenario "They moved the firmware from a chip to a CD, so we
> can't distribute a driver any more" is ridiculous.  Any attempt to modify
> the rules to handle firmware should either fix that situation or
> else *really* justify why that's desirable.

I agree.

If there's hardware out there with the firmware preloaded, then the
driver for that hardware should stay free, regardless of the existence
of other hardware.

-- 
Raul



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