> What does limit you more, an OS that excludes blobs, or a vendor who > provides the blob? Surely the OS.
A user can choose to not use the blobs (e.g. by using Linux-libre), so the vendor does not limit them. Linux-libre having drivers which cannot load the blobs is a bug, but it's a very unimportant task to fix (the aim is to not distribute and not recommend the blobs). > But that's not the point in the > whole freedom talk. The point is to make all software free. The point is to make each user control their computing, we don't need to unmake or replace all nonfree firmware for that. > Now if free software licensing (for "normal" programs and certain > kinds of firmware) would be forced through laws, which one day it > hopefully will be, then you would be able to run all devices with free > software very soon. I believe this is too difficult to be done in law. It's not obvious what e.g. a source is, and the definition used in the FSDG is not good for some software-like works (fonts are an example). Making users aware of the power of developers over their computing and promoting free software as a (partial) solution for that doesn't have this problem. > Lemote Yeelongs > don't have a non-free BIOS but they're not x86 and they don't have a > free software friendly graphicscard (it needs a blob for full > functionality) and they are very small. The currently available ones have a graphics card which doesn't need any blobs, just it doesn't have modern features like 3d acceleration and its driver is old. A new model is planned with the problem you described.
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