Z:gnu-www-ja-linux-gnu-freedom--5f3aac-The Linux developers have a pl/en

The Linux developers have a plan to move these firmware programs into separate files; it will take a few years to mature, but when completed it will solve the secondary problem; we could make a &ldquo;free Linux&rdquo; version that doesn't have the non-free firmware files. That by itself won't do much good if most people use the non-free &ldquo;official&rdquo; version of Linux. That may well occur, because on many platforms the free version won't run without the non-free firmware. The &ldquo;free Linux&rdquo; project will have to figure out what the firmware does and write source code for it, perhaps in assembler language for whatever embedded processor it runs on. It's a daunting job. It would be less daunting if we had done it little by little over the years, rather than letting it mount up. In recruiting people to do this job, we will have to overcome the idea, spread by some Linux developers, that the job is not necessary.