-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 11:38:19AM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 14/01/2017 à 11:23, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : > > > >Now there's already some firmware on that card (ROM, flash, > >whatever persistent storage). But those things are set up > >to receive more firmware from the operating system on > >the "main" computer. > (...) > >(My WiFi hardware also would like to get some firmware. > >Since it isn't free software, I decided to go without). > > May I ask why ?
This discussion has been carried out (with varying degrees of intensity, sometimes reaching the "flamewar" level, perhaps also because of the (seemingly paradoxical) standpoint of the FSF on it. Since you are around for quite a while, your innocent-looking question raises a little alarm bell in me :) > As you noted above, many hardware parts already contain embedded non > free firmwares (motherboard, graphic card, network adapter, storage > adapter, hard disk, SSD...) so what difference does it make to use a > few extra loadable firmwares or not ? Suffice it to say, I prefer to not add non-free to non-free (of course I'd prefer the whole firmware in the device to be free: getting there slowly). It is a complicated field, and there are differing opinions on that[1] regards [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_blob - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlh6B/YACgkQBcgs9XrR2kYpuACfURUe0/dd6yXJLT1K5CIfqiXM 1GoAnjf3PhJryNbA81xAP/+JOybv0ZSB =ZUuZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
