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FSFLA: Linux kernel is "open core"FSFLA: Linux kernel is "open core"Posted Nov 10, 2010 19:18 UTC (Wed) by lxoliva (subscriber, #40702)In reply to: FSFLA: Linux kernel is "open core" by cesarb Parent article: FSFLA: Linux kernel is "open core"
> the firmware is part of the hardware, even if it is shipped separately
I'll remember that when the firmware starts being shipped separately from the kernel that requires it as much as the hardware. Then I'll say “Linux is still proprietary software, because the firmware is still part of Linux, even though it is shipped separately, per cesarb's twisted logic” :-)
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FSFLA: Linux kernel is "open core" Posted Nov 10, 2010 22:21 UTC (Wed) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266) [Link]
That would be really bizarre, because by that logic, it was never part of the kernel to begin with (you could count it as part of the kernel if by that you mean "distributed with the kernel", but not as "part of the code which runs on the kernel").
Either you use the same logic on both situations (meaning the firmware was always part of the hardware, and so you cannot say it was ever really "part of Linux"), or you use it on neither (so it was "part of Linux" and stopped being so after being moved to the firmware tree).
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