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Screw init wars, real OGs discriminate based on DE (lemmy.ml)
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[–] zephr_c@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

The point isn't just pragmatism. The point is that you're running closed source software either way. Even ideologically, running out of date closed source software because it's built into the chip isn't actually any better than running a current version of the same software from a drive. Maybe that distinction made sense in the 90s when mircocode updates weren't a thing most people dealt with, although honestly even back then it was a little weird. Now it's complete garbage. The FSF is an important organization, which makes it all the more important to call them out when they're wasting time and money on stupid nonsense.