> I guess the difference is very small. Anyway, you do not need many
directives to implement something nasty (a backdoor, a spyware, etc.). You
want the freedom to fix bugs in those blobs too (what is close to impossible
because they are blobs). That is why, if you value your own freedom, you
would refuse any proprietary piece of software.
Indeed.
Personal (ethical) script-kiddie experience shows that /even/ a 50 KiB file
may be large enough to hold /both/ a functional firmware and a functional,
sometimes-quite-wide, back-door opener.
1) create a piece of hardware and perform some relevant advertizing;
2) bundle malware into driver and transfer software over to Linux devs;
3) [...]
