| Thomas Bushnell BSG 2005-03-31, 3:01 am |
| Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no> writes:
> * Thomas Bushnell BSG
>
> | Huh? I'm not saying I pretend it isn't there. Do I want to modify
> | the source code? No, because there's nothing I could do with it if I
> | could.
>
> Sure there is, like, reprogramming the image shown when your computer
> boots.
What I meant is that if the firmware is truly burned into the chup,
then I couldn't change it even if I had the source code. It was wrong
to say that I don't *want* to modify it, but rather, that I *cannot*
do so.
Regardless, the point is what we distribute, not what is on my
computer.
See, I'm not some "purist" who demands that I only touch free
software. Non-free software is all over my house; painting me as a
purist is incorrect, and so it's crazy to say I'm inconsistent in my
purity. I'm not a purist. I do not argue that Debian should be 100%
free software because I'm a purist.
I argue it because that's the point of *Debian*.
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