> as long as the hardware itself is closed source you have to trust the vendor anyway Because it's an ongoing effort. Years ago people were running GNU softwa

> as long as the hardware itself is closed source you have to trust the vendor anyway Because it's an ongoing effort. Years ago people were running GNU software on proprietary kernels/operating systems. You can't get to fully free and open hardware in one step. Firmware is the next battlefield, and its an area that hardware manufacturers have been winning. The firmware on a modern machine is orders of magnitude larger than it was 10 years ago, while provided essentially the same features. More and more closed source code is running on your machine. If we don't push back sooner or later your linux install will only be running in a virtualized environment provided by the proprietary OS running in "firmware"