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   Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 21:27:42 JST Alexandre Oliva
   on this day, in 2008, Jeff Moe announced the Linux-libre project
   https://web.archive.org/web/20140203134408/http://lists.autistici.org/message/20080221.002845.467ba592.en.html
   
   Linux had been nonfree for 12 years already by then
   Linux-libre is now 17, and Linux is still nonfree
   
   nonfree firmware dependencies keep on being added underneath
   but nobody cares if they're written in C or Rust or whatever, or that they're nonfree
   no questions asked for lower-level bits with higher corruption potential
   the hypocrisy is palpable
   
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 21:35:54 JST 翠星石

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     @lxo I'd like to note that the dependencies lack any kind of firmness and are rather nonfree peripheral software.
     
     People have been taught that "firmware is something different to software" and you can avoid that entire issue by not hesitating to call software, software, mentioning that it happens to run on a peripheral device as needed.
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