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You are wrong, from https://ryf.fsf.org/about/criteria :

"We want users to be able to upgrade and control the software at as many levels as possible. If and when free software becomes available for use on a certain secondary processor, we will expect certified products to adopt it within a reasonable period of time. This can be done in the next model of the product, if there is a new model within a reasonable period of time. If this is not done, we will eventually withdraw the certification."




Do they actually enforce that, if the device can either have a proprietary blob that is user-updateable, or a proprietary blob that is not user-updateable, it must use the design where the proprietary blob is user-updateable? Because other claims by the FSF (namely, that non-updateable blobs can be treated as part of the hardware) directly contradict that.




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