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This is a very bad faith interpretation of what I wrote.

• persnickety 3y ago
  How about a less bad-faith formulation: the world got more dependent on secret, proprietary software, and therefore the pragmatic way is to concede a little territory to them, so that people can use Free Software at all. Except it's a lose-lose situation: there will never be an end to those concessions, as long as secret software expands under the guise of firmware. And a hardline stance will alienate new generations and starve the movement. The endgame is no Free Software in either scenario.
• trelane 3y ago
  How is "the world got more dependent on secret, proprietary software, and that therefore those who wish to have freer systems should just give up." a "bad faith interpretation" of "10 years ago it was not too hard to run a distro without firmware blobs on a laptop if you were cool with just getting a thinkpad, but modern intel hardware requires a blob for graphics so even that path is closed now. My 2022 thinkpad x1 needs blobs for graphics, wifi, bluetooth, and sound and I tried to find something modern that didn't need them and gave up eventually."