On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 01:21:35AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: | On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 11:01:46PM +0100, Oliver Kurth wrote: | > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 01:25:24PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: | > The firmware is needed. Without it, the device is completely dumb. | > But there are some devices which can store the fw permanently. Also, | > the fw is distributed on their (windows) installation CDs. | > | > > One wonders why they don't just open up the source to the firmware | > > drivers since they aren't planning on making any more updates to it. | > | > I am not sure about this. I think this is true only for the devices with | > Intersil radio. | | Does this company even deserve our support?
Possibly not, but I think a case could be made that Debian's users do. (You know, that other priority, the one that isn't Free Software...) Cameron.