On Sun, 24 May 2009 15:38:09 -0400 Ted Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 17:08 +0930, Karl Goetz wrote: > > On Sun, 24 May 2009 10:22:50 +0300 > > Niklas Cholmkvist <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > In the program "Windows Wireless Drivers" it says in the > > > description: > > > > allowing an easy way to install Windows wireless drivers. > > > > > > Do you think it should be removed? > > > > ndiswrapper? yes it should be. the current code doesnt seem to cut > > it, so feel free to submit a patch which works. > > kk > > I'm unsure of what you're saying. Are you sarcastically suggesting > that ndiswrapper should be improved, or are you agreeing that it > should be removed from the repo? > I'm agreeing it should be removed. > Ndiswrapper itself is free software. It might function as a wrapper > for non-free software, but removing a program based on what it *might* > handle as input seems too far. There's no *guarantee* that the drivers > ndiswrapper handles are non-free just like there's no guarantee the > programs that Wine handles are non-free. ndiswrapper exists purely to load non-free software. I'm certainly not aware of any free drivers that ndiswrapper could load. Have you any examples? In the case of wine there *are* free software tools that are only available for Windows. Because of these wine is left in the repositories. kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian user / gNewSense contributor http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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