[Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer
Dexter Morgan
dmorganec at gmail.com
Fri Mar 25 07:42:51 CET 2011
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:29 AM, andre999 <andr55 at laposte.net> wrote:
> ok.
> 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.
>
> As for the drivers, a little more distant from the hardware, they could be
> in non-free, but I sincerely think that they should be on all installation
> isos.
hi,
Not on ALL ISOS, because that way you don't respect ppl that really
"respect" the free softwares and that don't want any closed software
on their computer.
hth
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