Hi > > Is this lock out based on ideology or reality. > Including "free as in > beer" firmware does not compromise the ability to > redistribute Fedora > freely and I think it moves us closer to the goal of > a genreal-purpose > operating system out of the box. but only if the firmware is actually freely redistributable. many vendors do not agree to this. OpenBSD had a users campaign and they did get some success with it but intel has refused to cooperate ===== Regards Rahul Sundaram __________________________________ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/