absurd: network connection required to obtain a network driver

Mackenzie Morgan macoafi at gmail.com
Thu Jul 3 18:31:23 UTC 2008


On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Przemysław Kulczycki [2008-07-03 20:14 +0200]:
>> If not, then maybe Canonical could ask Broadcom  for permission to
>> redistribute these files?
>
> That already happened many times, but fell on deaf ears unfortunately.

And even then, that'd just give Canonical permission to redistribute
them.  It wouldn't give us (the users who like to make copies of our
Ubuntu CDs and hand them out) permission.

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