Re: Eliminating closed source?

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%rek.tjls.com@localhost>]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:13:50AM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
>
> How hard is it to build a kernel without including any closed-source
> components?  (For example, most of dev/microcode/, and of course
> anything depending on it, would have to go.)

Are you going to stop using all the devices in your system which carry
their closed-source microcode in ROM, too?

(I'm not trying to be sarcastic, I'm genuinely curious.  This seems
 profoundly impractical to me -- even modern Ethernet controllers have
 come full-circle to the early days and are microcoded again.)

Thor