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FSF offers "GNU Bucks" for finding nonfree works in free distributionsFSF offers "GNU Bucks" for finding nonfree works in free distributionsPosted Oct 2, 2009 7:32 UTC (Fri) by renox (subscriber, #23785)In reply to: FSF offers "GNU Bucks" for finding nonfree works in free distributions by timschmidt Parent article: FSF offers "GNU Bucks" for finding nonfree works in free distributions
>>Thanks to the efforts of these people, it will eventually be possible to use a reasonably modern machine in which all software and firmware are Free.<<
Maybe but not on x86 CPUs, AFAIK they all contain microcode which isn't Free..
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FSF offers "GNU Bucks" for finding nonfree works in free distributions Posted Oct 2, 2009 18:02 UTC (Fri) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link]
I would be extremely surprised to find anyone who called microcode "software".
FSF offers "GNU Bucks" for finding nonfree works in free distributions Posted Oct 2, 2009 22:40 UTC (Fri) by dwheeler (guest, #1216) [Link] Be surprised. Microcode is software. Yes, it runs on a lower-level infrastructure. Yes, an initial version is typically built onto the device. So what? It walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, etc.; let's just admit that it's a duck.
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