On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 01:42:16AM +0530, Karthik Kumar wrote:
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> > Firmware are not free enough when they have a license that does not
> > allow them to be redistributed with the system.
> >
> 
> You are talking of free as in freedom and not price, right? If the
> whole point was to avoid paying $$$ in OpenBSD, my bad.
> 

What has money to do with this ?
You sound like you have issues understanding, so I will make it as simple
as I can, please take the time to read a few times, and make sure you get
it, before replying to this mail:

	- vendor A sells hardware that requires a firmware

	- OpenBSD wants to support that hardware and needs the firmware
		to be shipped, say in /etc/firmware/, to have the
		hardware work out of the box

	- vendor A says "if a customer wants the firmware, he must go
		to out website and fill a registration form online".

	- OpenBSD does not ship the firmware because it is not free
		enough.

See ? This is an example, it is unrelated to money, and you still failed
to show us ONE point where we don't stick to our goals.

-- 
Gilles Chehade