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btown on Aug 14, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Black Hat USA 2015: The full story of how that Jee...

The second approach is likely preferable - with the first approach, FOSS Stalwarts will still complain that there's non-free software in the system.

dlubarov on Aug 14, 2015 [–]

They could still open source the first system's firmware code. FOSS doesn't imply easily modifiable, does it?

E.g., rms says he used a Lemote Yeeloong because of its free BIOS, but AFAIK he couldn't have reprogrammed it unless he removed the BIOS chip from the motherboard.

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