Hi, On 10/3/07, Guido Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I haven't checked it, but if they have a FreeBIOS compatible > motherboard in their collection, this might be the first 100% freed PC > on the market I have ever seen!
no, because it still ships nonfree firmware in its onboard network card and even the CPU comes with nonfree microcode. With your definition of 'free' it will never be possible to build a free computer. I have found some interesting quote at http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/cameras: 'Cameras that use the uvcvideo driver work without proprietary firmware.' That is just not true. Every camera I am aware of comes with nonfree firmware. Some cameras just have a (documented or reverse engineered) way to upload firmware images. Cheers, Torsten -- blog: http://twerner.blogspot.com/ homepage: http://www.twerner42.de/ _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
