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FSF offers "GNU Bucks" for finding nonfree works in free distributions

FSF offers "GNU Bucks" for finding nonfree works in free distributions

Posted Oct 2, 2009 18:02 UTC (Fri) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047)
In reply to: FSF offers "GNU Bucks" for finding nonfree works in free distributions by renox
Parent article: FSF offers "GNU Bucks" for finding nonfree works in free distributions

I would be extremely surprised to find anyone who called microcode "software".


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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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