Ben Finney writes: > Likewise, if a program will behave markedly differently in the absence > of a firmware program, to the point that it becomes useless without > it, it's still the same program; but it still depends on that firmware > program. Various programs in main behave markedly different in the absence of certain proprietary network server software -- IM client programs come to mind. Do those bits need to be removed from main? Michael Poole