[mistrial9]

predictions for the futures of linux : more intrusive control, locking and phone-home at BOOT time; more opaque binary blobs that enable that and other things; more restrictions on international distribution for sanctions and other political reasons

BSD ++

[anthk]

OpenBSD has blobs too.

[somat]

blobs are closed source drivers, executable software that runs on the host CPU.

openbsd has no blobs, only firmware, executable software that runs on the device chip. It still sucks, but there is a difference.

[mlyle]

Not everyone defines the words that way. And by your definition— Linux doesn’t have blobs, either, in mainline.

(Microcode, I guess, is one other category)