El Wed, 7 Dec 2005 09:42:22 +0800,
Coywolf Qi Hunt <[email protected]> escribió:
> 2005/12/7, Luke-Jr <[email protected]>:
> > No proprietary software here, excluding things such as firmware/BIOS where
> > there is no choice.
>
> Why 'excluding'? You can't deny you are using proprietary software.
> Neither do us.
BIOS'es and firmware are not drivers or normal "processes". Firmware
doesn't deal with the internal kernel's locking for example- is a very
different thing. bios and firmware is pretty much part of the hardware,
pretty much like the chips' internal design: it just "does its work".
There's no of point on having open source bioses/firmware if you don't
have the design docs and all the related hardware info aswell.
(IOW: Saying that you'are using "propietary software" because you're
using a propietary BIOS is wrong, IMO - it's pretty much "propietary
hardware" even if its software)
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