On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:56:48PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > Em Mon, 8 Mar 2004 13:35:37 +0100, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > > > > I'm a little unclear on how a "first class free operating system" can > > > be non-free. I guess that's the central problem here. > > > > Tell me again, what hardware are you running, and what licence does your > > BIOS have ? I seriously doubt it is free. > > This argument is broken, because Debian is not distributing hardware or > BIOS. Thomas' point still holds: distributing non-free does not really help > us achieve our goals.
No, but it could. There are at least two free bios implementation projects that i know of, openbios, and the other using the kernel as the bios. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
