Firmware IS SOFTWARE!! firmware = software The FSF considers firmware as software. If the firmware isnt free, the Fedora isnt FREE!! We can't change the firmware, then the firmware isn't FREE!! Where are the Infinite Freedom ? Freedom to change the Code, to change the firmware!! Please, read this <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firmware">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firmware</a> "firmware is software" Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira <a href="http://www.projetofedora.org">www.projetofedora.org</a> <div>On 6/19/07, Rex Dieter <<a href="mailto:rdieter@math.unl.edu">rdieter@math.unl.edu</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Rodrigo Padula wrote: > - FREE SOFTWARE DEFINITION - By Free Software Foundation ... > These firmwares below affect us directly, affect our freedom! software != firmware. The Board's current position is that firmware (that doesn't run on the host CPU) is a reasonable exception (to modifiability). It is our hope that once these ground-rules are established and well understood, hardware manufacturers will be more willing to produce/support high-quality linux drivers (preferably in the upstream kernel). -- Rex -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list <a href="mailto:Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com">Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list"> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list</a> </blockquote></div>