No, I don't think RMS at least would disagree.
No, those blobs are just firmware uploaded to various devices. Perhaps they can compromise the system (same as any other firmware), but they're not part of Linux.
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I guess technically as of 4.14 the proprietary parts are of a different project, but mainline Linux kernel in the majority distros (and for much of history) included lots of blobs
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And linux-libre de-blobs from upstream. Here's the original announcement: https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/anuncio/2010-03-Linux-2.6.33-libre.en.html …
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