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#1528
Originally Posted by joerg_rw View Post
Please note that FSF is NOT about privacy, it's about Free Software! They don't basically care about privacy as long as their primary requirement "full FOSS" isn't met.
So they are suggesting that not to be able to modify the firmware equals it to part of the hardware? That would be stupid. While the firmware is not FOSS there is a problem.

Not letting update it would just be a way to monitoring just one firmware version, easing the control, but no more.
 

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