Launchpad - closed source

[Corey Burger]

On 11/7/06, Shawn McMahon <smcmahon at eiv.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 12:36:22AM -0800, Corey Burger said:
> >
> > Now do see why an open source distribution relying on a closed source
> > tool is completely unacceptable? Yes, replacement for all those tools
>
> We are going to run your free replacement tool on a system with no
> non-free code in the hardware, right?  Microprocessor?  Video board?
> BIOS?  No?  Unclean! Unclean!

I would prefer not to, but I understand the realities of the
situation. There is no good replacement for the BIOS yet, although the
OLPC guys are rocking with LinuxBIOS apparently. There are good
replacements for everything LP does.

Corey