Re: LCC and blobs

[Bruce Perens]

Matthew Garrett wrote:
How does moving firmware from the disk to the hardware (therefore making
it harder to modify and more expensive) further the cause of free
software?
 

If you want to drive manufacturers to open their firmware, it doesn't. I 
am not sure that we should be driving manufacturers thusly, for reasons 
I enumerated in my post "On the freeness of BLOB-containing drivers".

   Thanks
   Bruce