[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > On Dec 20, Brian Thomas Sniffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: >> >> differently depending on the presence of additional software -- the >> >> kernel, for example, or the firmware. >> > I'm not doing this either. >> Great. Then the driver operates differently depending on the presence >> of additional software -- it needs a Linux kernel and the firmware. > But then drivers also "depend" on "additional softwares" stored in > flash EEPROMs in devices. > >> Without either of those, it does not operate. This is a dependency. > But then ICQ clients "depend" on non-free ICQ servers...
And every program depends on a computer, most of which is probably constructed using a design language like VHDL, which is not far from software. NON-FREE!!!! -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED]
