Why is GrapheneOS against GNU? (grapheneos.social)

submitted 8 months ago by lunar_dust_222@sh.itjust.works to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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They say that GNU is spreading misinformation and "stop getting info from charlatans"?

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[-] ramenu@lemmy.ml 32 points 8 months ago

I'm not a fan of GrapheneOS, but the point they bring up here is valid. There is already proprietary firmware on your computer. There's no reason why you shouldn't be updating it to protect yourself from serious exploits. The FSF takes an ideological stance rather than a practical one, unfortunately.

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 months ago

Except they also advocate using compute devices that only use blobless firmware

[-] ramenu@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

I know. And that's reasonable of course. I'm sure most of us would agree that proprietary blobs are bad. I'm optimistic that firmware will become more open in the future though.

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