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On Fri, Nov 27, 2015, at 10:33 AM, français wrote:
> The Free Software Foundation (FSF) says that:
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> "FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD all include instructions for obtaining
> nonfree
> programs in their ports system. In addition, their kernels include
> nonfree
> firmware blobs.
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> Nonfree firmware programs used with Linux, the kernel, are called
> “blobs”,
> and that's how we use the term. In BSD parlance, the term “blob” means
> something else: a nonfree driver. OpenBSD and perhaps other BSD
> distributions (called “projects” by BSD developers) have the policy of
> not
> including those. That is the right policy, as regards drivers; but when
> the
> developers say these distributions “contain no blobs”, it causes a
> misunderstanding. They are not talking about firmware blobs.
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> No BSD distribution has policies against proprietary binary-only firmware
> that might be loaded even by free drivers."
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> The affirmations of FSF that I cited above are falses?
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> With spying revelations, it is well-known that non-free firmware can
> contain
> backdoors. ( just one recent example:
> http://www.wired.com/2015/02/nsa-firmware-hacking/ )
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> I would feel a lot safer if the kernel and packages were fully free,
> containing no non-free drivers nor non-free "firmware".
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