Conversation

“As the situation deteriorates around us, our community must cooperate to ameliorate this disaster. We need to help each other and communicate about thoughtful choices when drawing lines that we’d rather not draw. We fool ourselves if we believe we can live in our modern society while avoiding proprietary software. The situation is dire. There are many examples of where you simply cannot reasonably function without agreeing to interact with proprietary software.”

— Karen Sandler and Bradley M. Kuhn

This applies especially on mobile, where it’s hard to avoid proprietary graphics, baseband firmware and wifi drivers.