On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 02:29:31PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 02:08:45PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > If i am stopped from maintaining the driver for the ADSL modem that > > provides me access to the internet, and thus enables me to do my debian > > work, will you step in and pay me (and others who use the same modem) a > > new adsl modem that is supported by non-free software. > > One (quite off-topic) question I'm curious about now for a long time: > Why do you have an ADSL modem which needs a non-free driver in the first
Because it was cheap and i could afford it ? Because it promised linux support on the box ? Because upstreal promised me that once there is an alternative to the soft-ADSL library they use (and don't have the source code for) they would move for it, thus freeing the driver fully ? Because i didn't want to use a usb modem, which were also not free at that time, and prefer the confort of having a pci modem and no extraneous stuff cluttering my desk ? > place? TTBOMK, there are quite a few alternatives available (although I > have to admit that I don't have ADSL myself, and things might be > different in France) Well, most especially, things were different when i bought it. For the same price i would buy a adsl modem/router combo today, altough it also don't comes with free software, so i am not entirely sure i would gain in the long run about the freedom of my installation. I envy Joeyh and his fully linux box in router-like size, altough i guess he also doesn't use ADSL with it. Friendly, Sven Luther
