Brian Thomas Sniffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
>> Regardless of whether this dependency is expressed in our package
>> management system, most drivers depend on non-free firmware. 
> 
> They depend on the presence of appropriate and properly functioning
> devices, which are typically implemented using non-free firmware.
> That's very different.

I have no interest whatsoever in having an argument about semantics.
There's no interesting functional difference between these two things,
except that in one case the driver has to make a call to load the
firmware and in the other case it doesn't.

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Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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