Hi Karel,

Karel Kulhavy wrote on Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 10:38:11AM +0100:
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> On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 12:38:05PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
>> Someone asked:

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>>> Is it true that Puffy is not here because of Theo's concerns
>>> about his copyrighted Puffy logo?
>>> http://misc.allbsd.de/Kampagnen/NoBlob/NoBlob-en-Poster.jpg
>> 
>> No.  That is false.  Whoever told you that lied to you.
> 
> That was written in this post on a Swiss IT news portal:
> http://www.symlink.ch/comments.pl?sid=07/03/15/1557213 \
>   &threshold=-1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=9

Oh please, don't be absurd.  That bulletin board posting is so
obviously sarcastic that you just cannot take it seriously.
Besides, even if it could be serious: When trying to understand
Theo's ideas, it should be well known that it's no good trying
to start from what Thorsten might be thinking about them
(not judging the rest of Thorsten's work and ideas in any way).
If you don't understand German well and know little about the
people involved, then at least you have been jumping to conclusions.

Concerning the rest of your questions:  All this has been
discussed an re-discussed ad nauseum.  Please do make an effort
to find some information yourself before asking, or you will
start getting on people's nerves, even if you do not intend to.

Two hints:
1. Do not confuse firmware blobs with kernel space driver blobs.
   These are two completely different kinds of animals.
2. Avoid the discussion of purely hypothetical situations
   (like "no hardware specs for any hardware on the market").
   Rather try to focus on real problems.

Yours,
  Ingo