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Re: General Resolution: Handling of the non-free section: proposedBallot



On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:56:48PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
> Em Mon, 8 Mar 2004 13:35:37 +0100, Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> escreveu:
> 
> > > I'm a little unclear on how a "first class free operating system" can
> > > be non-free.  I guess that's the central problem here.
> > 
> > Tell me again, what hardware are you running, and what licence does your
> > BIOS have ? I seriously doubt it is free.
> 
> This argument is broken, because Debian is not distributing hardware or
> BIOS. Thomas' point still holds: distributing non-free does not really help
> us achieve our goals.

No, but it could. There are at least two free bios implementation
projects that i know of, openbios, and the other using the kernel as the
bios.

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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