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Unfortunately, the FSF isn't against firmware blobs, only against those updatable by a user.
From their Respects Your Freedom requirements page.
This means that proprietary firmware flashed at the factory and impossible to replace gets a pass, while hardware with firmware updates through blobs is rejected. Important security fixes (CPU microcode) or stability improvements will be missing if you can't update the firmware.
And thats why they advocate open hardware
Sure and that's the ideal, but as it currently stands the FSF would rank hardware like this:
This makes no sense for security, stability or ideological reasons.