On Sun, 15 Mar 2020 15:36:45 +0100 [email protected] wrote: > Where does software start and firmware end? Isn't the > bootloader/BIOS/UEFI also just a piece of software?
I would refer to this statement[0] given by the GNU Project: "Any software that can be replaced by someone else, the user must be empowered to replace." [0]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/loyal-computers.html And more globally, we could refer to that statement[1]: "A computer can have modifiable preinstalled firmware and microcode at lower levels. It can also have code in true read-only memory. We decided to ignore these programs in our certification criteria today, because otherwise no computer could comply, and because firmware that is not normally changed is ethically equivalent to circuits. So our certification criteria cover only the code that runs on the computer's main processor and is not in true read-only memory. When and as free software becomes possible for other levels of processing, we will require free software at those levels too." [1]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/applying-free-sw-criteria -- Félicien Pillot 2C7C ACC0 FBDB ADBA E7BC 50D9 043C D143 6C87 9372 [email protected] - [email protected]
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