On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 12:50:46AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > 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.
That's not true either. Manufacturers provide utilities to reprogram their embedded FLASH components, particularly motherboard manufacturers but also for disks, modems etc. > I argue it because that's the point of *Debian*. The social contract says something about our users too I think. Must be in the fine print. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
