FSF updates its "fully free" distribution list

Posted Sep 15, 2009 20:46 UTC (Tue) by leromarinvit (subscriber, #56850)
In reply to: FSF updates its "fully free" distribution list by jebba
Parent article: FSF updates its "fully free" distribution list

I agree that open source firmware is even better - hackable hardware is fun and has many of the same advantages as free software. But why is it okay to have non-free firmware on a flash chip where you never see it, but not okay to load the same firmware at runtime?

FSF updates its "fully free" distribution list

Posted Sep 15, 2009 20:52 UTC (Tue) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link] (1 responses)

or firmware on a flash chip that requires a windows-only program to update it.

FSF updates its "fully free" distribution list

Posted Sep 15, 2009 21:52 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

... and if the update goes wrong you are terminally buggered, as opposed
to load-every-time firmware, where you're not buggered at all.