Quote: andr55 wrote on Fri, 25 March 2011 01:29
> My though was essentially that firmware is so close to hardware that > its > actual free/non-free status shouldn't apply - we should treat it like > (almost) part of the hardware. I agree with that. After all nobody (apart from R. Stallmann) questions the fact that the BIOS of their PC is non-free or all the other firmware or microcode on various chips on the motherboard and on expansion cards and peripherals. Firmware belongs into 'core', Nvidia/ATI drivers and the Flash plugin belong into 'non-free'. -- Mageia ML Forum Gateway: http://mageia.linuxtech.net/forum/