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Completely meaningless.. Purism gets around the requirements for FSF RYF by loading proprietary firmware from a separate chip instead of main CPU

• fsflover 5y ago
  Why does it matter that some chip runs proprietary software, when it has no way to access network or RAM? It's basically what FSF call "hardware". Of course it would be great to have it open, too, but that goes beyond requirements of RYF.
  • ddtaylor 5y ago
    I think his point is that the rules that FSF has created here are arbitrary and their dogma of claiming it doesn't use any proprietary blobs is lip service since they end up doing the same overall thing just with slightly different steps.
    • fsflover 5y ago
      The rules are not arbitrary. They separate "hardware" from "software" from the point of view of freedom, as I explained above: "hardware" is non-updatable and with limited access, whereas software is vice versa.