I'm confused by the double negative, but I believe RMS would definitely agree there is a difference between open and free; and he has discussed this in the past. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html … https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/floss-and-foss.en.html …
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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POWER9's EEH fencing and the other weird advanced alien futuretech features of IBM chips make me wonder why—at all—anyone bothers with x64 at this point, given the bizarre backdoors x64 has.
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But not as part of Linux.
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If it's not a part of Linux, where is it from? Can you point me to its repo? (pre 4.14.) From where is the firmware uploaded from
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