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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer</H1>
    <B>Tux99</B> 
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    <I>Fri Mar 25 09:33:04 CET 2011</I>
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Quote: andr55 wrote on Fri, 25 March 2011 01:29

&gt;<i> My though was essentially that firmware is so close to hardware that
</I>&gt;<i> its 
</I>&gt;<i> actual free/non-free status shouldn't apply - we should treat it like 
</I>&gt;<i> (almost) part of the hardware.
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I agree with that. After all nobody (apart from R. Stallmann) questions the
fact that the BIOS of their PC is non-free or all the other firmware or
microcode on various chips on the motherboard and on expansion cards and
peripherals.

Firmware belongs into 'core', Nvidia/ATI drivers and the Flash plugin
belong into 'non-free'.

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