Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is a driver that loads a BLOB Free Software? The problem is connected > with distribution. The BLOB is unquestionably software. It runs below > the bus, which is our /usual /demarcation between Free Software and the > rest of the system, but it starts life above the bus at boot time, and > *we have to distribute it.
In many cases, we do not have to distribute it. We could - alternatively, we could use the copy that the user has on a CD already[1]. Bruce, why do you keep sending HTML? [1] This isn't true for a small set of drivers - the ipw2100 requires different firmware for Linux and Windows. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
