On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 01:09:42PM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: > > > - vendor A sells hardware that requires a firmware > > > > > > - OpenBSD wants to support that hardware and needs the firmware > > > to be shipped, say in /etc/firmware/, to have the > > > hardware work out of the box > > > > > > - vendor A says "if a customer wants the firmware, he must go > > > to out website and fill a registration form online". > > > > > > - OpenBSD does not ship the firmware because it is not free > > > enough. > > In that case, it would be illegal for you to distribute the firmware, > so naturally you don't. No argument there. > > But what about the different case where the company permits > redistribution of the binary firmware, but does not release source > code. Would OpenBSD distribute the firmware in that case? >
Please, do us all a favor, launch a fucking browser and educate yourself with a search engine. If you can't figure out how to launch a browser, get some of your fsf slaves to browse the web for you. This has been discussed many times and it shouldn't take long for you or your minions to find out that we do not care about the source of firmware which doesn't load into OpenBSD. Gilles -- Gilles Chehade
