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microcolonel on July 3, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: OpenBSD Is Now My Workstation

A lot of Linux distros just ship a lot of this firmware, not expecting to be litigated against for it; and it seems to work out.

petecox on July 4, 2019 [–]

c.f. Debian, which has a policy to exclude non-free firmware from its installation media.

The onus is on the user to themselves supply the firmware.

https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch06s04.html.en

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