On Jan 8, 2008 9:07 PM, Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > equating firmwares with blobs is an RMS-thing, > > In Linux terminology, "blobs" means firmware and only firmware. It > appears that the word has a different meaning in OpenBSD terminology. > Thus, we had a failure of communication.
In about 5 minutes of research using google, lets see what i could come up with.... And lets see, wiki seems a nice place to look .. oh .. look what i found ... "In computing <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computing>, a *binary blob* is an object file <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective_Code> loaded<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linker>into the kernel <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_%28computer_science%29> of a free <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software> or open source<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software> operating system <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system> without publicly available source code <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_code>. The term is not usually applied to code running outside the kernel, for example BIOS<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS>code, firmware <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firmware> images, or userland<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Userland_%28computing%29>programs." Sorry? Binary Blob loaded into a kernel? didnt know firmware got loaded into a kernel ... Oh oh, look, "IS NOT USUALLY APPLIED (except if you're RMS) to code running ... FIRMWARE ...." [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_blobs ] Whats that? Binary blob? Sorry, the only other kind of blob has to do with objects in relational databases .. I'm sure there is no resemblance to firmware, drivers or anything related here... What say you now?
