[easygenes]

Well, if they wind up with blobs I think they will at least be more limited. The "Management Engine" style ones are the most egregious. Ones for the sake of hardware video encode/decode are a bit more forgivable, though still regrettable.

And there is certainly growing interest in blob-free computing [1], so some at least will exist to fill that demand. There is some hope for video with Linux landing blob-free hardware encode/decode very quickly the last couple of years [2].

  1: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/reform/updates/post-campaign-orders
  2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9JLxjYlIWg