Messages in this thread | | | From | "Richard M. Stallman" <> | Subject | Re: GNU/Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario | Date | Sat, 10 Dec 2005 05:16:28 +0000 (UTC) |
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> No proprietary software here, excluding things such as firmware/BIOS where > there is no choice.
Why 'excluding'? You can't deny you are using proprietary software. Neither do us.
The FSF chose, for its newest server, a machine that supports a free BIOS. You can make such choices too.
We are also trying to help the work to support free BIOS on a laptop so that my next laptop can run a free BIOS. There are surely ways you can help, too, if you want to be constructive.
Non-free device firmware is also a problem, when it has to be installed from outside the device. The OpenBSD developers have done a lot of work to arrange to avoid non-free device firmware. The FSF tries to help too; we maintain some lists of hardware which works without non-free firmware. We need more of these lists; if you are an expert on some category of hardware, and you would like to help, please write to me. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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