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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Call me when the FSF isn't actively hurting the cause for hardware freedon by having bass-ackwards certification rules that result in designs where non-free parts are made invisible and untouchable and unfreeable.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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What stops them? How will you ever find out?
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