Matthew Garrett on Nostr: When it comes to non-free firmware I think there's two reasonable positions - treat ...
When it comes to non-free firmware I think there's two reasonable positions - treat it like non-free code running on a remote system (suboptimal, outside the scope of current free software priorities) or treat it like software running on the primary CPU (all code on the local system should be free software, no matter where it's running). I think the FSF's position is unreasonable:
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