Gilles Chehade wrote:
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
An OpenSSH connection into an unethical computer using Lynx web browser
might work...
Then the pipe that lynx feeds back through OpenSSH would be ethical..
since pipes are not the same as say a DSO/ELF/a.out that displays stuff
on the screen directly.
Is Lynx Stallmanist Software, or is it unethical?
L505
