"Marco d'Itri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>I think that requiring a hardware upgrade to support behavior is >>irrelevant to free software. Firmware that's part of the hardware is >>part of the hardware. Firmware that looks like software is software. >>If Debian *could* ship it, it's software. > This distinction is not clear at all to me. What if I take a dump of the > flash EPROM chip? Does this magically makes the firmware a software?
There's no magic about it. If I build a simulator for some hardware, then my simulator's software. -Brian -- Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
