The Multimedia Question
Josh Boyer
jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Thu Jul 19 18:11:57 UTC 2007
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 14:04 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Tom spot Callaway (tcallawa at redhat.com) said:
> > > Is helping desktop users outside of the ideology of Fedora?
> >
> > I would argue that we're not helping them when they end up with
> > proprietary junk on their system.
> >
> > Users may not care. We care.
>
> See: firmware. Oh wait, we like that!
If you have a PCI card that has a hardware MP3 decoder that requires
proprietary firmware that is freely redistributable, we'll gladly take
that.
josh"firmware-is-software-but-not-in-the-traditional-sense-of-software-and-i-think-you-already-know-that-so-i'll-ignore-you"
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