On Tuesday, February 24, 2026 3:34:44 AM Mountain Standard Time Wouter Verhelst wrote: > I want us to *not pretend*. I do *not* think it is good enough to > pretend it is not there. I want us to declare that non-free firmware is > not free, regardless of whether it's stored in a ROM chip on a device or > on a general-purpose storage medium. And I want to state, personally, > that in my opinion, using non-free firmware that's installed inside a > ROM chip on a device is *not* a better situation than having it on the > general-purpose storage of the computer in which it's mounted -- because > the latter means you can, theoretically, replace that firmware with > actually free firmware. If the non-free firmware is installed in a ROM > chip, you can't.
I agree completely with the above. -- Soren Stoutner [email protected]
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