You're being passive-aggressively unimaginative and unwilling to seek out information for yourself, in a manner that is a common form of trolling. Even if trolling is not your intent, you should know that the idea of learning by asserting something wrong online and waiting to be corrected may make for a good joke but is not a polite and productive way to have online conversations.
I'm not being "passive-aggressively" anything. I asked a simple question. You're the one who started some firmware/software semantics argument instead of actually answering what I asked. I didn't assert anything either, other than that firmware is software. I continue to assert that now.
If you think I'm trolling, then simply don't reply. I've learned plenty from the other posts. I'd rather not create hardship for dang by continuing this thread.