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Authored by emaste on Mar 14 2016, 12:50 AM.
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PR: 206619 https://bugs.freebsd.org/206619

Avoid quibbling over device firmware blobs that do not include source code. It's clear from the context that this (perhaps dated) paragraph is making a comparison to closed-source operating systems, but the sentence may be interpreted differently in 2016.

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emaste retitled this revision from to soften claim about source code on https://www.freebsd.org/about.html.
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This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Mar 17 2016, 8:41 PM
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