The sad part is that it took RMS making excuses for sex trafficking for him to get kicked out. He's been a hindrance to the free software movement for many years now, in technical/licensing/endorsement/general image matters.
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They have a "secondary processor exception" that requires nonfree firmware to be hidden and immutable, leading to nonsense like this:https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-solving-the-first-fsf-ryf-hurdle/ …
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Here's a Twitter thread on how stupid their rules are:https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1040626210999431168 …
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Also RYF is a joke in practice; if you actually look at the list of certified devices, it's a bunch of off-the-shelf stuff that is largely identical to something you can buy at any random shop, and a bunch of proprietary ROMs are involved, but those are exempt.
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Ah, so proprietary firmware is fine as long as you can't see it, change it, audit it, improve it (patching), or replace it with free firmware. Gotcha. Sorry, but I'm not interested in your image of "freedom" then. That's not freedom, it's bullshit.
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Wow, that is some straight-up bullshit right there. 100% agreed with you on this, this does not increase freedom or protect it.
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Interesting, I wonder why they insist on certification.
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Because the Purism folks unfortunately value the image of openness, even if imagined, above pragmatic design choices and actually building the best product for the openness-conscious user.
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