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FSF chooses to draw the line between "hardware" and "software" at "read-writable." Arguably if Alexa's AI was burned onto a ROM, you could argue the entire Ale
by crazypython 5y ago
FSF chooses to draw the line between "hardware" and "software" at "read-writable."
Arguably if Alexa's AI was burned onto a ROM, you could argue the entire Alexa speaker was a hardware appliance.
The alternative is requiring a microwave's control software to be fully free.
- Blikkentrekker 5y agoYes, that is the alternative if one stubbornly choose to believe that the world can binarily partitioned into free and proprietary. — such paradoxes often derive from such a mentality.