Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Thomas Sniffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Regardless of whether this dependency is expressed in our package >>> management system, most drivers depend on non-free firmware. >> >> They depend on the presence of appropriate and properly functioning >> devices, which are typically implemented using non-free firmware. >> That's very different. > > I have no interest whatsoever in having an argument about semantics.
What, you want to argue syntax? > There's no interesting functional difference between these two things, > except that in one case the driver has to make a call to load the > firmware and in the other case it doesn't. And that is a functional difference: in one case the owner of the device who has downloaded some Debian software has to go get some other software and load it onto his machine; in the other case he doesn't. So indeed, there's no difference but the difference that matters. -Brian -- Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
