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Re: please



madduck@debian.org wrote:

>Don't shoot the messenger. Tell the vendor of your wireless card to
>take the stick out of their behind and cooperate with the Free
>software world. While they do not do so and instead release crap,
>security-hole-ridden, and often incompatible firmware which is
>closed and thus cannot be improved by people with a clue, Debian
>will not support them out of the box. We are a Free operating
>system.
OTOH we will happily ship any driver which uses a "crap,
security-hole-ridden, and often incompatible firmware" as long as it is
present in an EEPROM. Not a great argument.

-- 
ciao,
Marco



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