Debian Developers are employed at a wide variety of companies, some of
which ship products that depend on proprietary firmware blobs.
I'm wondering if there is any sense talking to some of these project
members to gain at least an understanding of why certain firmware
can't be freed. Intel comes
On 09/05/2014 12:32 PM, Brian Gupta wrote:
As an aside, how are certain wifi chipsets FSF blessed? Is it
because they keep any firmware on non-volatile storage (meaning no
blobs have to be delivered by OS) and not field upgradable, or is it
because they somehow provide sourcecode for the
Daniel Kahn Gillmor d...@fifthhorseman.net writes:
On 09/05/2014 12:32 PM, Brian Gupta wrote:
As an aside, how are certain wifi chipsets FSF blessed? Is it
because they keep any firmware on non-volatile storage (meaning no
blobs have to be delivered by OS) and not field upgradable, or is it
I'm wondering if there is any sense talking to some of these project
members to gain at least an understanding of why certain firmware
can't be freed. Intel comes to mind with the wifi firmware, and CPU
microcode.
Such companies are known to use debunked arguments like FCC regulations
for
