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+ <H1>[Mageia-dev] free software purity question</H1>
+ <B>Christiaan Welvaart</B>
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+ <I>Thu Jul 19 15:08:16 CEST 2012</I>
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+<PRE>On Thu, 19 Jul 2012, Johnny A. Solbu wrote:
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+&gt;<i> On Thursday 19 July 2012 04:35, blind Pete wrote:
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> My attitude to non-free firmware is in flux. &#160;At the moment
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> I am annoyed by it, but accept it as a fact of life and just
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> install it. &#160;
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+</I>&gt;<i> I am more that just anoyed. I flat out refuse to install proprietary
+</I>&gt;<i> drivers, as I don't trust them. The reason is that we can't
+</I>&gt;<i> independently verify that they haven't included a backdoor with the
+</I>&gt;<i> driver, to spy on us or the like. Now, I don't believe that they do, but
+</I>&gt;<i> we can't verify it. Also we can't change it to suit our needs. The
+</I>&gt;<i> sacrifice is performance and functionality.
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+Why are you talking about *drivers* when the remark you quote is about
+*firmware* ? Some open source drivers don't work (well) without them
+loading non-free firmware into the device.
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+ Christiaan
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