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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] free software purity question</H1>
    <B>Johnny A. Solbu</B> 
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    <I>Thu Jul 19 15:19:42 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>On Thursday 19 July 2012 15:08, Christiaan Welvaart wrote:
&gt;<i> Why are you talking about *drivers* when the remark you quote is about 
</I>&gt;<i> *firmware* ? Some open source drivers don't work (well) without them 
</I>&gt;<i> loading non-free firmware into the device.
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Because it is the same issiue. I treat firmwares the same as I treat any other software. if a device can't work without installing a package contaning non-free firmware, I'm not using it.
In order to use it I might need to install a non-free software package (rpm, deb, tarball). How is that any different than a driver? Both have to be installed by the user. (yes, yes, the default might be to have them preinstalled in some distros, that is not the issiue.)

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