awooo :blobfoxcheck: 🏴☠️ 🐾 ⎇
@SuperDicq @chjara @charlotte What's the difference between shipping said software burned into the hardware itself vs shipping it as a binary with a redistributable license in the OS and sending it to the hardware? Yes, the distro must state that it contains said software, it is usually required by the license to have a notice, but that software doesn't run inside your userspace or kernel.
And I agree, firmware should be open source and replaceable, but that's a separate issue to solve.
awooo :blobfoxcheck: 🏴☠️ 🐾 ⎇
@SuperDicq @chjara @charlotte Right now you can't get anything without some proprietary firmware running on it. Your keyboard probably has it, your mouse has it even in the very sensor itself, there are practical limits to what you can do without refusing technology outright.
Wrongthink
@awooo @SuperDicq @chjara @charlotte Nirvana fallacy. Just because perfection is out of reach, doesn’t mean that one should just give up. And the fact that some blobware is currently unavoidable does not excuse its presence.
awooo :blobfoxcheck: 🏴☠️ 🐾 ⎇
@wrongthink @charlotte @SuperDicq @chjara I'm not arguing for giving up, but the way the FSF operates is just the wrong angle. Simply trying to avoid the blobs or prefering their existence embedded in the hardware is not a viable strategy and won't achieve much.
Again, nothing wrong with doing so personally or sharing resources about it, but treating it as the primary way forward will fail. You need a systemic solution to this systemic problem, and there are different levels of hostile software
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