@lanodan >The Free JavaScript campaign persuades companies, governments, and NGOs to make their Web sites work without requiring that users run any proprietary software.
The intentions of LibreJS are written out there for you.

>All it takes is a soldering iron or replacing the board/component.
Maybe when it's a through hole ROM chip or a simple component, replacement is feasible, but you just replaced hardware.
In that case, only you have the freedom to make the replacement, as you own the hardware, so I don't see what's wrong.

>Your manufacturer/seller is still reserving it's own right to modify the software they probably have full legal rights to modify.
Just because something is legally allowed doesn't always make it right.
Sure manufacturers can modify their own software for themselves and there's nothing wrong with that.
There's a big problem when there is tyrant hardware that only runs software digitally signed by the manufacturer mind you.

>RYF will tell your to remove hardware that that we know for sure can have libre software being written for. >Enjoy the novena without things like HDMI or a computer without integrated networking.
The novena case was when it was known that HDMI wasn't supported without proprietary software, but it was submitted for certification anyway.
Obviously the answer was that such HDMI output encouraged users to install proprietary software, so it would need to be disabled for certification to be awarded in the current state.
If you're so sure that you'll have a libre software replacement for the proprietary parts, then great, first do the replacement and *then* make a RYF certification application.
Novena is a special case really, in that there was eventually a libre replacement - that almost never actually happens.

I use wired networking myself and I do indeed enjoy integrated networking in freedom.
If you want Wi-Fi, is it really that hard to swap in a card that works with free software or use an external one?
If you must stick with the original integrated, then great, better get writing that libre loadable firmware.

>peripherals and co-processors being libre is just as important if not more.
Great, stop writing, get reverse engineering.