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Re:The FSF’s relationship with firmware is harmful to free s... by marcan_42 on Saturday January 22, 2022 @10:45PM (#30043424)
People keep bringing this up like proprietary software can always be unilaterally updated by the vendor. That's not how it works with firmware blobs, the vast, vast majority of the time. The user has the choice to run whatever firmware version they want, for as long as they want. They have strictly more freedom than if the software were not updatable, since they can choose the least evil version.

I can't believe people are still trying to use this argument. It's plainly evident that mutable software gives you more choice than immutable software. Making the argument that autoupdaters are evil and can be abused doesn't suddenly make all mutable software more evil than immutable software.

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Re:The FSF’s relationship with firmware is harmful to free s... by marcan_42 on Sunday January 23, 2022 @05:40AM (#30045169)
Incidentally, I'm on their list as a victim:

> 2010-03

> Sony restricted access to the PlayStation 3 GPU, so people who installed a GNU/Linux operating system on the console couldn't use it at full capacity. When some of them broke the restriction, Sony removed the ability to install other operating systems. Then users broke that restriction too, but got sued by Sony.

I'm one of the people who got sued by Sony. And I still think the FSF's take on all this is terrible.

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