Bug#494009: No loss without microcode

2008-10-21 Thread Alexandre Oliva
ffect stability. It might be the case that my particular video card doesn't require the microcode at all, but it shouldn't be assumed that removing any of this firmware will cause any loss to every user of this driver. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free So

Bug#494308: Living without e100 firmware

2008-10-21 Thread Alexandre Oliva
e impact on all e100-using hardware. If my experience counts, it will have zero impact. That said, I assume the firmware must be there for some reason, even if it's just to update in-flash firmware or so. Perhaps I just don't have hardware that depends on it. Who knows? -- Ale

Bug#494119: permission to copy, distribute, modify?!?

2008-08-10 Thread Alexandre Oliva
e wants, freedom #1 is missing. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED], gcc.gnu.org} -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to