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

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

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Linux@lemmy.ml · 3 years ago

The FSF has an unfortunate relationship with firmware, resulting in policies that made sense in the late 1980s, but actively harm users today, through recommending obsolescent equipment, requiring …

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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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