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They say that GNU is spreading misinformation and "stop getting info from charlatans"?

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[–] exu@feditown.com 6 points 4 months ago

Sure and that's the ideal, but as it currently stands the FSF would rank hardware like this:

  1. Fully open source
  2. Proprietary flashed in factory and impossible to replace
  3. Proprietary and can be updated/replaced

This makes no sense for security, stability or ideological reasons.