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Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Re: Freedom issues with non-free firmware in exte
From: |
Diego Saravia |
Subject: |
Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Re: Freedom issues with non-free firmware in external files |
Date: |
Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:22:50 -0300 |
>
> Could you please explain what this invitation entails? I am failing
> to see how, when you distribute a driver that can only work with
> non-free firmware, you are encouraging the development of free
> firmware.
you are telling to the world: we have free code to load firmware, we
need free firmware
>
>> was ok or was not ok to distribute gnash when it was almost
>> inoperative because its not complete developed?
>
> Distributing Gnash was always OK. Encouraging the use of a format
> that was (and still is, to a great extent) proprietary, is not.
why develop gnash in that case? Its look as a contradiction
>
> And a kernel module that relies on non-free firmware is not the same
> like gnash, evolution-exchange or empathy/pidgin/etc.
why not?
gnash could use another kind of video?
in fact the driver could load free firmware if it exists.
free driver is better than gnash
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Diego Saravia
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- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Re: Freedom issues with non-free firmware in external files, (continued)
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- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Re: Freedom issues with non-free firmware in external files, Richard Stallman, 2009/08/16
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