Re: Dell to Phx?

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Author: Darrin Chandler
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Subject: Re: Dell to Phx?
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 11:12:43AM -0700, der.hans wrote:
> Did the stance Dell took include working to provide Free Software drivers
> or just drivers that work?


In the bit I've read, they are using Free drivers "whenever possible"
and using binary drivers when not.

Note that this is very different from *using* *hardware* with available
Free drivers when possible (which is always), which would have enabled
them to go completely without proprietary blobs.

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