On Sat 11 November 2017 09:28:23 Adam Borowski wrote:
> > Does it really make the card more "free" if the binary blob is built-in
> > instead of being loaded at runtime?
>
> Somehow, RMS believes so.

No, actually RMS/FSF doesn't care about "more free" or "more secure" for that
particular topic of peripherals firmware- it's simply about "what we don't see,
we may consider as a hw blackbox. If however we *see* that firmware then our
rules apply". RMS and FSF can't accept that GPL only applies to code run on
the *linux* APplication Environment CPU (and coprocesors sharing unaudited
access to that code and user data), it's a mere problem of defining the
"borders of their farm"

refer
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=1396903&highlight=stallman#post1396903
>>>If the modem firmware can't be changed, it is effectively in ROM, so
>>>it might as well be a circuit. It doesn't need to be considered as
>>>software. For instance, the FSF can disregard it when judging whether to
>>>endorse a product


/j