I wrote: >Andrew Suffield writes: >> >>On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 07:51:58PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: >>> > You also need to turn this question around and ask it the other way: >>> > does having these drivers in contrib actually hurt anything? >>> >>> Yes. It currently means that we can't ship an installer with support for >>> this hardware, because we don't use material from contrib and non-free >>> by default. >> >>Putting these drivers into main instead of contrib would not alter >>this, because it still wouldn't work without non-free. Any *practical* >>difference? > >Yes, quite a lot actually - we can then ask people to feed a floopy or >CD containing the vendor-supplied firmware. Do keep up...
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