On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 10:56:20AM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > I'm just saying that by a practical point of view who thinks so is > pretending that hardware is free too. Your point of view is that > firmware is software. Ok, that's also true for all the hardware > you are using.
This seems to be a claim that a wire is software? I must admit that I don't understand this point of view. In any event, the social contract issue is whether *we* are making the system require some non-free component. -- Raul P.S. http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Asoftware