Originally posted by boltronics
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Originally posted by bridgman
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The reasons are also explained on the FSF website for everybody to see, which I pointed out in the other thread.
Originally posted by bridgman
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Originally posted by bridgman
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One is, will your computer run only free software? The answer is no in almost all cases, unless you are running a Lemote Yeelong 8089/8101 with the hard disk removed.
Second is, will your computer work with any of the FSF-approved free distros? The answer can be yes if you have an older NVidia card, but no if you have a Radeon card.
If the radeon microcode was opened up, a computer with a Radeon GPU could potentially be used in computers which fit the first criterion. If the microcode was put in flash memory somewhere, it could be used with the free distros per the second criterion.
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