Weekly Engineering News 37/2008

[Al Johnson]

On Thursday 18 September 2008, Werner Almesberger wrote:
> Mike Montour wrote:
> > For what it's worth, I would rank your #3 ahead of #2 by a large
> > margin. It is very important for users to be able to upgrade their
> > firmware.
>
> I fully agree. That policy never made sense to me.

snip...

> I actually wonder if there wasn't some miscommunication at its origin.
> After all, many a hard disk's firmware and even the microcode of many
> CPUs can be upgraded, and I haven't heard the FSF call for a ban of
> processing or storage ;-)

The FSF has an issue with firmware uploaded by the driver, and this reply to 
fedora seems fairly unequivocal. 

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FreeSoftwareAnalysis/FSF