on this day, in 2008, Jeff Moe announced the Linux-libre project
https://web.archive.org/web/20140203134408/http://lists.autistici.org/message/20080221.002845.467ba592.en.html
Linux had been nonfree for 12 years already by then
Linux-libre is now 17, and Linux is still nonfree
nonfree firmware dependencies keep on being added underneath
but nobody cares if they're written in C or Rust or whatever, or that they're nonfree
no questions asked for lower-level bits with higher corruption potential
the hypocrisy is palpable
https://web.archive.org/web/20140203134408/http://lists.autistici.org/message/20080221.002845.467ba592.en.html
Linux had been nonfree for 12 years already by then
Linux-libre is now 17, and Linux is still nonfree
nonfree firmware dependencies keep on being added underneath
but nobody cares if they're written in C or Rust or whatever, or that they're nonfree
no questions asked for lower-level bits with higher corruption potential
the hypocrisy is palpable
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@lxo my impression was that GNU started w/ userland and w/ dev tools, while hardware came w/ OS and source code drivers. Maybe the userbase attracted by that (Emacs, me) isn't used to caring about the underlying system, and hardware-bundled OS replaced by Linux was uninteresting?
I would like all general-purpose s/w to be free, and also have source code for drivers. But, theoretically, wouldn't it be enough if drivers presented a standard API/ABI? GPU code can't access n/w anyway - secure.
