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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 9, 2009 22:41 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: FSF offers "GNU Bucks" for finding nonfree works in free distributions by mjg59 Parent article: FSF offers "GNU Bucks" for finding nonfree works in free distributions
I suspect a tiny bit of practicality enters here. How much hardware uses
actual ROM these days? Does any?
(For that matter, how much uses EPROM? I haven't even seen the acronym for
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FSF offers "GNU Bucks" for finding nonfree works in free distributions Posted Oct 9, 2009 22:50 UTC (Fri) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]
Yeah, I tend to agree, which is why I don't buy this "Loadable firmware is worse" argument - there's a power imbalance between the vendor and you with almost all hardware you can buy these days, so if that's the motivation then drawing the line at loadable firmware seems like it's doing it wrong.
FSF offers "GNU Bucks" for finding nonfree works in free distributions Posted Oct 10, 2009 6:26 UTC (Sat) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
lots of chips are available with ROM nowdays.
EPROMs are just about gone (the packaging costs for them make it such that flash is a batter deal)
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