The FSF’s relationship with firmware is harmful to free software users
I&#x27;m well out of my realm of expertise here, but I had a gut reaction to:<p>&gt; Libreboot, being FSF-recommended, also has this policy of disallowing firmware blobs in the source tree, despite it being a source of nothing but problems.<p>Later the author points out how there isn&#x27;t any contemporary libre hardware that would satisfy users (vaguely but reasonably described), and so &quot;free&quot; solutions utilize loopholes in the legal language that defines the FSF&#x27;s &quot;libre.&quot;<p>What I&#x27;m reading is that capable libre hardware does not exist, or at least has not existed for many years.<p>Why accuse the FSF of hypocrisy?<p>Later,<p>&gt; At this point, total blob-free computing is a fool’s errand, so there are a lot of AMD Ryzen-based machines that will give you decent performance and GPU acceleration without the need for proprietary drivers.<p>Indeed, I don&#x27;t use truly libre hardware either.  I buy whatever The Man makes available.  Libre hardware is still a worthy goal.  There is no harm here on account of the FSF.