@meso I believe only one or two (now not maintained) BSDs are free software (without careful workarounds), as many of them will install proprietary software without asking you (i.e. OpenBSD) and it appears that most BSD distros have package trees full of poorly marked proprietary software (which is meant to be "full of freedom", merely because the proprietary malware fetched automatically via the internet is gratis).
@Suiseiseki@kirby well depending on the BSD operating system, it is likely entirely free software and you're less likely to encounter proprietary software if you're running BSD
@mesohttps://man.openbsd.org/fw_update is run on install, which downloads and executes proprietary software it if detects that your hardware could use it (probably even if the hardware is functional without).
Before OpenBSD asked before running the script - not anymore.
I can't find the commit containing the change at the moment sadly.
@mesohttps://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html >Bootstrapping Wireless Firmware >For licensing reasons, some firmware cannot be directly distributed with OpenBSD. The fw_update(8) tool will automatically download and install any missing firmware, but this requires a working internet connection.
@meso Originally you were meant to run fw_update yourself, but those BSD cucks seemingly didn't like how cucking yourself was optional, so they made the installer cuck you automatically by running fw_update automatically.
Not a single BSD operating system is completely free, every single one of them has nonfree blobs and unlicensed software, the only project that is making am effort to offer a fully free BSD operating system is Hyperbola and currently is still a work in progress.