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by toolcombinator 1613 days ago
The central problem here, is that RYF, just like the FSF itself, is outdated and hasn’t been relevant for a decade or more.

It’s a dinosaur from another era with its hypocritical RAM vs ROM policies, or “secondary processor” loopholes.

It assumes that there’s one Central processor in charge, something that hasn’t been true for a very long time.

Which parts of an SOC is central? The CPU? Great. Modern CPUs are multicore chips, so which one are central and which one are secondary?