Goswin von Brederlow writes: > Because the former works after installing the deb without the user > ever doing anything about firmware. How do you even know there is > firmware? Maybe it is all hardcoded into the chip? Without taking the > hardware apart you can't know. Call me ignorant but what I don't see > does not exist describes perfectly how it should be treated.
> In the later case the user actively has to download the firmware from > somewhere and add it to his system. The extra files taints his > filesystems and makes it less free. For example you can't just make a > live CD out of it anymore because the non-free firmware file makes it > not DFSG free.
Not free in what sense?
What can the user not do, that he can do if the firmware was already on the device?
