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@SuperDicq Am I misreading the script or are you deleting the entirety of the i915 & xe drivers because they reference blobs from the linux-firmware project

> You can if do it if you really want to, that's the point. Can't do it with proprietary software, it's not allowed.

At projects of this scale, the difference between proprietary software and open-source software blurs. There's no such thing as "not allowed". There's only "it's illegal", which is a question of "is what I'm doing gonna annoy $COMPANY enough that they'll spend a lot of money suing me" rather than a binary "yes/no". But maybe this is a mindset I have from being primarily a hacker & activist x3

To be entirely clear, I go to pretty big lengths to avoid running proprietary blobs. But that's because of the practicality of debugging & modifying with access to source code. Software being free/open source will not prevent whoever runs it from fucking me over (see eg. Firefox, and unwanted stuff slipping thru LibreWolf, Visual Studio Code and unwanted stuff slipping thru VSCodium (I had to hand-write patches myself)), but will make it easier to fight back. However, someone still has to do the *work* of doing the fighting, and sometimes it's a lost battle (eg. catching malware when upstream is actively malicious),

The reason why I named xz was to show that just because something is open source, doesn't automatically protect it from getting malware snuck into. Someone has to do the work to find it and remove it.

Which is what is my entire point is: Something being open source does not automatically make it respect the user. All it means is that it's usually easier to fight certain forms of anti-user behavior. I want explicitly multi-national open source software, because if all of upstream & the BDFL of a project are aligned with Nazis, if the project is too big, they can and will fuck over the users, even if the project is open source. You need to find a large enough group to do the actual work. Work that often can be done on proprietary software, and is done on proprietary software (see eg. Discord mods to remove or fix a lot of the anti-user code).

So, the deciding factor is not whether the software is open source or not, but rather how organized is upstream, how forkable is the project if it's open source, how many eyes are watching it, is there any group maintaining patchsets...