-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
>>>>> "LL" == Linux Lingam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
LL> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 1:49 AM, Linux Lingam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> dear all,
LL> [snip]
>> "The official "vanilla" Linux kernel from Linus that gets distributed
>> on kernel.org has non-free[1] software in it. "
>> click on the above url to discover more,
>> and of course, search the web for more, if you wish.
>>
>> what do you guys have to say and share about this
>> important new development in the saga of the linux kernel?
>>
>> regards
>> niyam
LL> apart from PJ and arun, no response yet from the community on this.
LL> wow! so much for endlessly and passionately debating value-systems
LL> around foss all these years in our mailing lists and ilug-meets and
LL> events.
LL> unless, are we supposed to merely agree with all-things linus, the
LL> pied-piper on the gates of dawn?
OpenBSD is already advocating this since a long time[1]. A large number
of the devices these days are saving the cost of flash memory by
providing firmware separately. But do you care if you don't have to
flash firmware from the software, but rather it is pre-programmed into
the hardware. And what difference does it make, from firmware being
loaded at runtime, or flashed at the time of manufacture ?
LL> regards
LL> niyam
References:
[1] - http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#39
Thanks
- --
Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल http://wahjava.wordpress.com/
·-- ·- ···· ·--- ·- ···- ·- ·--·-· --· -- ·- ·· ·-·· ·-·-·- -·-· --- --
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux)
iEYEARECAAYFAkg9noUACgkQHy+EEHYuXnTqsQCg8L693DyztXS6TneQND+ffA0s
Q/AAoJWcI8zpG+Xfvs7G1aKwEDh55dWN
=uTMF
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
_______________________________________________
ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org
http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008
Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi
http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
