Will the XO-4 need nonfree firmware

2012-11-30 Thread Richard Stallman
. Will the XO-4 need any of these? If not, the FSF might be able to endorse it. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone

Re: Will the XO-4 need nonfree firmware

2012-12-03 Thread Richard Stallman
ible to do that, but it might take some extra hardware. Is it possible to make the circuit such that the internal wireless device can easily be removed or permanently disabled without breaking the rest of the machine? If so, we could endorse machines modified in this way. -- Dr Richard Stallman

Re: Will the XO-4 need nonfree firmware

2012-12-03 Thread Richard Stallman
easy to obtain, that could be a product we could endorse. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone

Re: Will the XO-4 need nonfree firmware

2012-12-04 Thread Richard Stallman
y invite people get that card in order to make it complete. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call __

Re: Will the XO-4 need nonfree firmware

2012-12-05 Thread Richard Stallman
ic evidence; then we will do what we can. It may be hard to enforce copyrights in those countries, but in order to try, we need clear-cut evidence. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's

Re: Will the XO-4 need nonfree firmware

2012-12-06 Thread Richard Stallman
users can get them unlocked if they ask. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary

Re: Will the XO-4 need nonfree firmware

2012-12-07 Thread Richard Stallman
sk XYZ, we asked XYZ, and here's the response we got" -- the FSF could take action. Vague reports of GPL violations are as unhelpful as vague bug reports as far as fixing things is concerned. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA