The FSF’s relationship with firmware is harmful to free software users

Re:The FSF’s relationship with firmware is harmful to free s... by zauguin on Sunday January 23, 2022 @12:11AM (#30043806)

I think the issue isn't that much that no reasonable hardware can archive it, but that the "compromise" actively encourages not just insecure systems, but also making systems even less free.

It's a bit like saying that a Windows notebook is only "free" if you can't install other systems and updates are disabled. There probably is more or less reasonable hardware which could implement these restrictions, but such hardware would in no way be more "free" than a notebook where you could just install Linux.

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Re:The FSF’s relationship with firmware is harmful to free s... by orlp on Sunday January 23, 2022 @05:36AM (#30045147)

I think a good analogy is the parable of the cobra problem. A city suffers from too many cobras so the government puts a bounty on each dead cobra you hand in. The result? People massively breed cobras to hand them in. The government realizes this and stops the program. Subsequently all breeders lose interest and dump the cobras, leading to an even bigger problem.

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