Comment by charcircuit
6 months ago
To me:
Open Source Firmware signed by OS > Firmware blob signed by device manufacturer > Firmware blob hardcoded by device Manufacturer
The FSF treats hardcoded firmware blobs as "free" and updatable firmware blobs as nonfree despite there not being a big difference between them in practice. And practical differences like being able to fix security issues benefits users.
> And practical differences like being able to fix security issues benefits users.
More often than not these updates are not actually benefits to the users.
Can you provide such an example? Because of bugs in the new version? A lot of the time old versions can still be loaded.
Just in the last couple of days:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45568700
There are by now thousands of examples of this, I wonder why you would ask for an example, this is about as uncontroversial as the sun going up tomorrow.
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Thank you for clearing that up, I clearly misread that completely.