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Inducing others into the trap

Inducing others into the trap

Posted Mar 4, 2010 20:10 UTC (Thu) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)
In reply to: Inducing others into the trap by miguelsvieira
Parent article: Linux-2.6.33-libre released

To find out which pieces of your machine use non-free firmware, it would be easier to go lspci(1) and such, and look up what you find in a list. Maintaining and publishing said list (with usage instructions, as required) would be a much better use of the time involved, IMHO.

OTOH, with today's hardware increasingly "intelligent", I tend to doubt you'll find anything that doesn't use some non-free firmware, from the keyboard + mouse up.


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