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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You still don't get it, do you? Updatable non-free firmware *ensures* the hardware behaves in a known way by letting *you* check that the damn firmware file is what you expect it to be. If firmware is invisible and hidden then *you* can't check in any way that it is correct.
You're seriously arguing for unauditable "trust the manufacturer" bullshit? Manufacturers get owned, firmware gets compromised. What we need is firmware that the *end user* can verify and better yet modify *if they so wish*.
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It's the users' *right* to know what is running on their computers and be able to check it and modify it. By hiding code and making it unchangeable, you are depriving users of that right. If you can't see how this is a bad thing, you've drank way too much FSF kool-aid.
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The manufacturer *installs* the firmware at manufacture time, and they can install whatever the hell they want, which nobody can guarantee is whatever the FSF hypothetically audited (which they didn't anyway).
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