On Thursday 18 September 2008, Werner Almesberger wrote: > Mike Montour wrote: > > For what it's worth, I would rank your #3 ahead of #2 by a large > > margin. It is very important for users to be able to upgrade their > > firmware. > > I fully agree. That policy never made sense to me.
snip... > I actually wonder if there wasn't some miscommunication at its origin. > After all, many a hard disk's firmware and even the microcode of many > CPUs can be upgraded, and I haven't heard the FSF call for a ban of > processing or storage ;-) The FSF has an issue with firmware uploaded by the driver, and this reply to fedora seems fairly unequivocal. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FreeSoftwareAnalysis/FSF _______________________________________________ devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
