Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario

Wed, 7 Dec 2005 03:06:35 +0100
2005-12-07T02:06:58Z

El Wed, 7 Dec 2005 09:42:22 +0800,
Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@gmail.com> escribió:

> 2005/12/7, Luke-Jr <luke-jr@utopios.org>:
> > 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)