[sneak]

TL;DR: using free software to ease the process of downloading and running binary blobs.

f/loss is starting to look like religion as long as we have these arbitrary boundaries.

[mwill]

I'm not sure if you're implying they should have used incomplete, unstable reverse engineered verion, or just used Windows to do the update, but if its the latter:

  For people running Linux exclusively, like a lot of Red Hat’s customers

  Some devices are plugged in behind racks of computers forgotten, or even hot-glued into place and unremovable

Hardly seems like ideology was the limiting factor.

[sneak]

I'm talking about the software actually being updated; i.e. not the stuff running on the CPU.