"Francesco P. Lovergine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm just saying that by a practical point of view who thinks so is > pretending that hardware is free too.
No, I'm not pretending that hardware is free. It may well not be, which is why we don't distribute it. > Your point of view is that firmware is software. *Real* firmware is not software. But *real* firmware is *firm*, that is, you can't change it easily: it's in a ROM. And nobody is asking us to distribute it. "Downloadable firmware" is software, however, and is quite different, and the question is should we distribute it? > I see no difference between microcode loaded on CPU (just as an > example) and that loaded by the kernel to have hardware working. > Really no difference. Both may well be non free, and we should distribute neither if they are non-free. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
