Re: [Libreboot-dev] Hardware related confusions, Was: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME

[Francis Rowe]

Don't talk about MAME here. in practise, this is often used for running
proprietary software (games).

On 03/04/16 13:10, Jean Louis wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 03, 2016 at 12:15:43PM +0200, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote:
>>> Now people seem to thing that the definition of "firmware" is
>>> something like "piece of lowlevel program without freedom-respecting
>>> source-code" :-P That's not true! Look how crazy this situation has
>>> got
>> That's because they have a very confusing understanding of what a
>> firmware really is.
> Nice to give clarifications on what is what. Those are hypothetical
> explanations. 
>
> I don't have misunderstandings on that. Certainly there can be free
> "firmware" if it has corresponding source code and free "ROMs".
>
> But I was contextual not hypothetical, if there is "free ROM" for MAME,
> than it would be rather named "free game" or "free software", as by
> naming something "ROM" it commonly implies, and this can be checked on
> Internet, that such ROM does not have corresponding source code.
>
> I speak in the context. If you wish to add on MAME issues, you could
> give example of how MAME can be run with "free BIOS" (where is the
> corresponding source code) in order to run such "free ROM" (I did not
> find it yet).
>
> Jean Louis
>