@lispi314 @hj If you can upload software via software means and then it's updated, what you have done is uploaded software.

Manufacturers like to pretend their propriety software updates are not software, so people don't even realize that what they are uploading is software and their freedom is not being respected.

Proprietary software that takes your freedom is best described as what it is, even if it gets installed on a artificially hard to program EEPROM or NOR or NAND flash chip.

Firmware is microprocessor instructions on socketed ROM chips - you cannot reprogram that via software means, but you can just swap the chip.