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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What are you going on about? The whole point I'm making is that the FSF RYF stuff doesn't encourage hardware that is "almost free except for a tiny compromise", it encourages hardware that is *way less free* and opaque and unfreeable.
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Tell me a *single* way in which it is better to have some proprietary firmware hidden in some inaccessible Flash memory instead of having that same exact firmware in /lib/firmware. Both included proprietary firmware, but the former deprives me of many more freedoms!
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I want the freedom to *reverse engineer* the proprietary firmware, to *audit* the proprietary firmware, to *patch* the proprietary firmware, and ultimately to *replace* the proprietary firmware. The FSF *requires* depriving me of those freedoms to gain certification.
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