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Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME


From: Felipe Sanches
Subject: Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 18:47:04 -0300

"Please provide clear list of that, as that can help certainly.
It is good to remember that "free firmware" cannot be free software,
as there is no corresponding source code for that. It is firmware."

This sounds pretty much non-sense to me. Maybe we have incompatible
definitions of what "firmware" means. So, to make my point clear, by
"firmware" I mean bare-metal software. That is... very low level
software that runs on the CPUs or microcontrollers of an electronics
board. And yes firmware can be free software. Libreboot is one famous
example of free firmware (in particular, bootcode).



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