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[Mageia-dev] free software purity question

+ Christiaan Welvaart + cjw at daneel.dyndns.org +
+ Thu Jul 19 15:08:16 CEST 2012 +

+
+ +
On Thu, 19 Jul 2012, Johnny A. Solbu wrote:
+
+> On Thursday 19 July 2012 04:35, blind Pete wrote:
+>> My attitude to non-free firmware is in flux.  At the moment
+>> I am annoyed by it, but accept it as a fact of life and just
+>> install it.  
+>
+> I am more that just anoyed. I flat out refuse to install proprietary 
+> drivers, as I don't trust them. The reason is that we can't 
+> independently verify that they haven't included a backdoor with the 
+> driver, to spy on us or the like. Now, I don't believe that they do, but 
+> we can't verify it. Also we can't change it to suit our needs. The 
+> sacrifice is performance and functionality.
+
+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.
+
+
+     Christiaan
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