On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 05:59:47PM -0500, Richard M Stallman wrote: > Somewhat related to this: I've been toying with the idea of writing a > desktop session daemon, technically similar to Ubuntu's > "restricted-manager", > but with a different purpose: detect devices that require non-free > firmware > (based on bus id heuristics), and display a message explaining the user > why > these aren't supported, and discouraging him/her from buying hardware from > this vendor. > > It sounds like a good idea, but is the necessary information available > to do that job?
Probably not for all devices, but it wouldn't be hard to make the list complete with some user feedback. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." _______________________________________________ linux-libre mailing list [email protected] http://www.fsfla.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-libre
