Will the XO-4 need nonfree firmware

[Martin Langhoff]

Hi Richard!

On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Richard Stallman <rms at gnu.org> wrote:
> They would need to get an external USB network device.

Are there completely free USB network devices, from your PoV?

> If someone sells them without the card (NOT with the card separately
> packaged), under another name, and if the cards are not easy to obtain,
> that could be a product we could endorse.

I am curious, why "if the cards are not easy to obtain"? Non-free
peripherals, such as USB-WLAN devices, easy to obtain for this and
other computers, no...?

cheers,



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