Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

From: Giuseppe Bilotta
Date: Sun Apr 10 2005 - 04:34:00 EST


On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 20:42:17 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:

>> Every book in my book shelf is software?
>
> If you digitalize it, yes.

AFAIK software only refers to programs, not to arbitrary sequences of
bytes. An MP3 file isn't "software". Although it surely isn't hardware
either.

--
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

"E la storia dell'umanità, babbo?"
"Ma niente: prima si fanno delle cazzate,
poi si studia che cazzate si sono fatte"
(Altan)
("And what about the history of the human race, dad?"
"Oh, nothing special: first they make some foolish things,
then you study what foolish things have been made")

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