[Mageia-dev] free software purity question
Christiaan Welvaart
cjw at daneel.dyndns.org
Thu Jul 19 15:08:16 CEST 2012
On Thu, 19 Jul 2012, Johnny A. Solbu wrote:
> On Thursday 19 July 2012 04:35, blind Pete wrote:
>> My attitude to non-free firmware is in flux. At the moment
>> I am annoyed by it, but accept it as a fact of life and just
>> install it.
>
> I am more that just anoyed. I flat out refuse to install proprietary
> drivers, as I don't trust them. The reason is that we can't
> independently verify that they haven't included a backdoor with the
> driver, to spy on us or the like. Now, I don't believe that they do, but
> we can't verify it. Also we can't change it to suit our needs. The
> sacrifice is performance and functionality.
Why are you talking about *drivers* when the remark you quote is about
*firmware* ? Some open source drivers don't work (well) without them
loading non-free firmware into the device.
Christiaan
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