Fedora Freedom and linux-libre

Alexandre Oliva aoliva at redhat.com
Sat Jun 14 02:58:03 UTC 2008


On Jun 13, 2008, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:

> Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> 
>> Likewise, it's obvious that whoever distributed the firmware to you
>> has responsibility over the result, even though you could have got the
>> firmware from many others, or even got them straight from the vendor.

> Errr, what?  Is this list, or the computers that carry it, responsible
> for the odd bit of content above, or are you?

They didn't choose to distribute that particular content, so no,
they're just carriers, like the air through which the bullet flies on
the way to its target.

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