Le Tuesday 21 October 2008 22:28:31 Lennart Sorensen, vous avez écrit : > > If I recall well, one of the origin of the GNU fondation was the fact > > that having free drivers alowed one to actually *fix* issues he may have > > with his *own* hardware. Then, the very same reasoning can apply to > > binary firmware. > > Having driver source code lets you fix the drivers and port htem to > other operating systems and architectures. Having firmware source makes > no difference to that problem as long as the firmware is working. If it > isn't working, you would probably know soon enough and return the > defective hardware.
Firmware updates also happen to fix bugs.. Romain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
