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% Binary blob policy
% Binary blob extermination policy
% Leah Rowe
% 2 January 2022
% 2 January 2022 (updated 23 January 2022)
This article was written by Leah Rowe, the founder and current lead developer
of Libreboot.
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Other resources
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Ariadne Conill's RYF blog post
------------------------------
Ariadne Conill, security team chair of *Alpine Linux*, posted a very robust
article about RYF, with similar points made when compared to *this* article.
However, Ariadne goes into detail on several other examples of problems with
the FSF RYF criteria; for example, it talks about the *Novena* product by
Bunnie.
It's worth a read! Link:
<https://ariadne.space/2022/01/22/the-fsfs-relationship-with-firmware-is-harmful-to-free-software-users/>
Hector Martin's RYF thread
--------------------------
Hector Martin, leader of the *Asahi Linux* project (for booting linux kernels
on M1 macbooks) wrote a very robust twitter thread criticizing the RYF criteria
and much of what he wrote inspired *this* article that you are reading. See:
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Article updates
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23 January 2022
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Added link to Ariadne Conill's article.
21 January 2022
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This article was updated on 21 January 2022, to add the section with examples
in the real world of FSF sweeping blobs under the rug (ATI T400 thinkpads,
ICH9M descriptors and TALOS II NIC firmware).