[Trisquel-users] Re : Things we already knew but the rest of the world is still learning now

[lcerf]

RMS perfectly understands what the BSD world calls a "blob" and  
https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html explains:
FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD all include instructions for obtaining nonfree  
programs in their ports system. In addition, their kernels include nonfree  
firmware blobs.
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.
None of those BSD distributions has policies against proprietary binary-only  
firmware that might be loaded even by free drivers.