Heya Sphynx
>Firstly, I have to apologize for having
>a bad English. I'm doing my best.
It's not worse than mine :)
In an ideal world we would have free and open implementations for hardware
with open interface specifications and not propritary / non-free stuff
included in the device. But we are not living in an ideal world. Hence
everyone has to make compromises. Where you draw the border for the
acceptable is up to any user and pretty individual.
With stuff like UEFI on the close horizon I think we (as Linux users) have
worse problems than small blobs inside or outside any device, right ?
From the sole point of a user I do not know what limits me more:
An operating system which excludes non-free blobs which results in
non-working hardware or a vendor which provides a blob (may be not exposing
all functionality of his device) which results in working hardware ?
I think chris summed it up pretty nicely:
Most devices and computers are not free software compatible. ...The freest
you can currently get have a non-free BIOS.....
There is nothing more to add.
>Just my two hours,
I feel sorry that it took you so long to answer my confused thoughts.
>.."dark souls"...? (see how I did it? :])
>-D$ [What? "Dark$oul"? May God help you...]
Yes, it is. Actually I find it fascinating to read a comment on my nick /
forum alias from one who calls himself Sphynx :)
And even more fascinating would be how my nick interferes with the topic we
discuss on ?
May be you can elaborate.....?
-D$
