Is Linux not free software itself? I thought propietary stuff was added downstream.

Am I getting something wrong?

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    5 months ago

    Yeah, sure, but if the largest companies in the world trust the vendor that proprietary firmware why would I not trust it?

    I agree with your POV, in theory yes, having stuff you can’t inspect it’s a risk, in practice there are a few more nuances to that. It’s not reasonable to want to have a 100% open-source computer from the software to use down to the AVRs/PICs that run low level functions.