If we're talking about drivers, the user won't usually know they're asking for firmware files, unless she's knowledgeable enough to check dmesg. OTOH I think it's bad to assume the firmware is always going to be non-free. It could be liberated, or others could write a replacement, and then not having the ability to load the free version becomes a technical inconvenience.
When someone frees a firmware package, we can add the driver we previously removed. I don't think that firmware blobs will be freed 5 times a day thus and overload us ;-{. _______________________________________________ linux-libre mailing list linux-libre@fsfla.org http://www.fsfla.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-libre