@yomiel @debian @sally The *only* installer has nonfree ***software*** in it now, making it proprietary software. If it doesn't have any kind of firmness, calling it anything but software is totally incorrect.

There's a boot flag you can set to make it not automatically install proprietary software, but the installer is still proprietary software.


If you can come up with a legitimate explanation as how peripheral software that is loaded onto RAM has any firmness to it, I'd love to read it.

Firmware is socketed ROM or PROM chips for computer BIOS's, but that isn't really a thing anymore (you cannot reprogram it, although you can replace the chip).

The reason why such naming is now applied to software is to CONFUSE the reader and prevent them from even REALIZING that what they are installing is software and it's so effective that people spread such confusion without realizing it.