In an ideal world there would be no binary blobs. We do not live in an ideal world. Instead the “dogmatic” FSF have compromised and said that if NO ONE can chan

In an ideal world there would be no binary blobs. We do not live in an ideal world. Instead the “dogmatic” FSF have compromised and said that if NO ONE can change the binary blob then everyone is equal. Which is true. However, if you can upgrade it so too can the manufacturer, and this is as a whole disrespectful to user freedom as you have no access to the source. Especially in this day and age when firmwares can be updated OTA and some even include backdoors like Intel ME.