We will not get anywhere unless we specifically ask these companies what we want, such as to not exploit labour, fabricate on occupied land, or sprinkle our hardware with proprietary firmware. These companies have more than enough money and resources to not behave this way. There are small companies who try to build hardware from scratch so we can have free software, which is a great idea. You would think these profitable bigger companies who have the budget to try different things and test new product ideas, like proprietary firmware free hardware, would actually do something about it. The ideas of free software are pretty much known in computer science clubs throughout the world. So I cannot understand why they no longer exist once these engineers join a corporation. You would think *some* of these ideas would hold. Same with people I know personally who abide by free software in school and then become Mac fanatics after. It's weird.

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