On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 12:25:53AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > As a rule of thumb ask yourself: Can I take out the harddisk and > sell it including contents? > > With non-free firmware copied from a CD you can't. You have to remove > the firmware first.
That assumes all non-free (as in speech) firmware is also non-free (as in beer). This is simply not true; in fact, since they are in the kernel, I'd think they are free (as in beer). -- EARTH smog | bricks AIR -- mud -- FIRE soda water | tequila WATER -- with thanks to fortune