on disabling drivers that use non-Free firmware

Richard M Stallman rms at gnu.org
Tue Jan 13 10:50:59 UTC 2009


    > Those are not similar cases.  None of them _requires_ a
    > non-free program in order to run at all.

    The drivers don't, either.  They just won't do anything useful.

You have shown that I didn't make my words mathematically clear.
I should have said,

    Those are not similar cases.  None of them _requires_ a
    non-free program in order to run and provide their
    functionality.


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