On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 12:10:59PM -0400, Evan Prodromou wrote: > Francesco Poli wrote: > > >On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 14:00:47 -0400 Glenn Maynard wrote: > > > >>I think there's a fairly significant difference between an emulator > >>that will load and display an "insert ROM" image (eg. NES, SNES), and > >>one that requires a specific non-free image in order to be able to do > >>anything at all (eg. PSX BIOS images). > >> > >>The first is analogous to requiring media; you see what the console > >>displays if a cartridge isn't inserted. The second is the same as > >>requiring a non-free library for which there is no free replacement. > >>(I'm not aware of any free replacement PSX BIOSes.) > > > >Agreed, fully. > > > I'd agree with that, too. Very succintly put. Sounds like a good litmus test to me. I likes me my bright-line tests. -- G. Branden Robinson | Kissing girls is a goodness. It is Debian GNU/Linux | a growing closer. It beats the branden@debian.org | hell out of card games. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Robert Heinlein
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