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Because he can close his eyes and wish, I suppose. It's a netbook, there are microcontrollers. The microcontrollers have firmware. Besides which, I somehow dou

by glimcat 15y ago

Because he can close his eyes and wish, I suppose. It's a netbook, there are microcontrollers. The microcontrollers have firmware. Besides which, I somehow doubt that all the relevant microcircuitry is open source.

ars 15y ago
He's OK with that kind of firmware - as long as the code can not be updated the circuit is considered a black box. He doesn't ask for open source hardware either, so firmware directly tied to hardware is considered hardware.
- glimcat 15y ago
  Seems a wee bit arbitrary. And convenient.
  - ars 15y ago
    He explain more here: http://www.fsf.org/news/freebios.html http://www.fsf.org/news/freebios.html Or better, here: http://blog.reddit.com/2010/07/rms-ama.html http://blog.reddit.com/2010/07/rms-ama.html search for "microwave".