On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 08:58 -0400, jude ui wrote: > > > On 9/17/08, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > jude ui wrote: > > Might want to take a look at > > > http://doolittle.icarus.com/~larry/fwinventory/2.6.17.html > > Rahul > > > Why is there the source for firmware? > > >Sorry. I am not sure what that means. > > Rahul > > Thanks for the link - but it's debian-I thought we were > talking about Fedora here > > And to repharse my question - Can't you guys reselse the firmware as "release"? > opensource - are they prosperity drivers? (correct me if I'm wrong) "proprietary"? If I understand you correctly(*), then yes, most (all?) firmware is proprietary software for which we don't have the source code. (*): It's a bit hard to answer questions where you have to guess what is asked ;-). Nils -- Nils Philippsen "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase Red Hat a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nils@xxxxxxxxxx nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 PGP fingerprint: C4A8 9474 5C4C ADE3 2B8F 656D 47D8 9B65 6951 3011 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
