Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
But lacking those tools, I can't modify it. >> 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. And neither trumps the other. We do not start distributing non-free software as part of Debian because our user's tell us to. But we do distribute it separately, remember? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
