Don't get you. I was speaking about proprietary firmware, which is still needed to use different hardware. Even if you find totally open driver & maybe integrated in Linux kernel. Good example is b43 driver http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 - it doesn't work without proprietary firmware.
2013/9/25, SheemOn Shapiro <[email protected]>: > You are grossly inaccurate and historically a defeatist. When we started > developing bad Unix and later Linux, everything was closed. Google was a > search engine and no more. Look at the current Linux source tree and then > repeat your statement... > On Sep 25, 2013 9:30 AM, "Dmitriy Nikandrov" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Not only phones, >> but also laptops, desktops, routers, etc... Even Raspberry Pi in it's >> heart is closed source. >> >> The problem is that there is no OPEN HARDWARE chips (with open firmware): >> for Wi-Fi >> for GSM (even can't be because of patents on core specifications) >> for LTE >> for GPS >> >> >> 2013/9/25, Nick <[email protected]>: >> > Quoth Brian Kemp: >> >> To be clear - the driver is free. The firmware is not. >> > >> > Gosh, looking at the table on the status page [0] I see that there >> > are no devices which have wifi without non-free firmware. So there >> > are no phones which have either free wifi or free gsm parts? The >> > situation sucks even more than I realised as a casual observer. >> > "Sure, you can use your phone freely, so long as you don't want any >> > connectivity." >> > >> > /me sighs. >> > >> > 0. http://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/ReplicantStatus >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Replicant mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/replicant >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> Replicant mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/replicant >> > _______________________________________________ Replicant mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/replicant
