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And how does he know there are no "firmware blobs"?

• glimcat 15y ago
  Because he can close his eyes and wish, I suppose. It's a netbook, there are microcontrollers. The microcontrollers have firmware. Besides which, I somehow doubt that all the relevant microcircuitry is open source.
  • ars 15y ago
    He's OK with that kind of firmware - as long as the code can not be updated the circuit is considered a black box. He doesn't ask for open source hardware either, so firmware directly tied to hardware is considered hardware.
    • glimcat 15y ago
      Seems a wee bit arbitrary. And convenient.
      • ars 15y ago
        He explain more here: http://www.fsf.org/news/freebios.html http://www.fsf.org/news/freebios.html Or better, here: http://blog.reddit.com/2010/07/rms-ama.html http://blog.reddit.com/2010/07/rms-ama.html search for "microwave".