Em Fri, 11 May 2001 01:13:43 -0700
"bast3d" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu:
> I wanted to inquire on if Debian is going to include Win Modem support? With
> hundreds of thousands of Win Modems out there, I think that 'having that base
> covered' would be advantageous to sales to new users and experienced users
> that
> have extra modems laying that they could put to good use. Hell, Debian could
> carve
> a niche with doing just that.
most of the drivers for winmodems are proprietary and closed-source,
Debian is not going to support that kind of driver because of its
Social Contract and the DFSG but if a winmodem driver is under the GPL or
other free-license it is a probable candidate to enter the main kernel
tree, wich cannot accept non-free drivers too
[]s!
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Gustavo Noronha Silva - kov <http://www.metainfo.org/kov>
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