I think part of this is wrong (the part that only Linus knows about), but doesn’t the kernel ship with binary blobs for some of the drivers/firmware? I thought

I think part of this is wrong (the part that only Linus knows about), but doesn’t the kernel ship with binary blobs for some of the drivers/firmware? I thought that was the whole impetus of the Linux Libre project [1]. I am willing to give benefits of doubt that Dave heard about the binary blobs and mistakenly assumed that they were proprietary to Linus himself. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux-libre https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux-libre