Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Re: Freedom issues with non-free firmware in external files

[Daniel Olivera]

Diego Saravia escribió:
> 2009/8/16 Yavor Doganov <address@hidden>:
>> Diego Saravia wrote:
>>>> The driver ITSELF is free software.  But there is no way to use
>>>> it in the Free World.
>>> could be used to develop a free blob
>> As I said in my previous messages, distributing the blob (in "source"
>> or binary form) is not a prerequisite for writing a free replacement
>> of that blob.  Not at all.
> 
> we are not talking about that, we are talking about distributing
> drivers without blobs.
> 
> and we are not talking either about prerequisites. we are talking
> about an invitation to develop what is needed: a free firmware.
> 
> 
>> Quite the opposite, by distributing it (or distributing the kernel
>> module happily able to load and use the blob, if available) you are
>> effectively saying that there's nothing wrong with that blob.
> 
> not at all
> 
> distributing a free system is not a way to say that is ok to use flash on it
> 
> you can use gnash on it, for example
> 
> was ok or was not ok to distribute gnash when it was almost
> inoperative because its not complete developed?
> 
> distributing an incomplete gnash was an incentive to use flash?
> 

That is an excellent example?
Any non functional free software packages is an invitation to use a
non-free replacement software?

> somepeople said that we must not incentivate the use of  that kind of
> video codification, and that we must not distribute gnash, nor flash,
> but that is another history.
> 
> 
> 

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