The FSF’s relationship with firmware is harmful to free software users

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  • open-ath9k-htc-firmware

    The firmware for QCA AR7010/AR9271 802.11n USB NICs

  • There are some old WiFi devices with libre firmware, but they only support old WiFi standards.

    https://github.com/qca/open-ath9k-htc-firmware

  • carl9170fw

    CARL9170 Firmware Source Repository

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  • bcm5719-fw

    BCM5719 firmware reimplementation

  • The Talos II is blob-free. At launch, proprietary binary-only firmware was required for the network interface, but Raptor Computing Systems offered a bounty to reverse engineer and do a Free Software re-implementation of the firmware, and that effort succeeded and the bounty was paid. See:

    https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/Project_Ortega

    https://github.com/meklort/bcm5719-fw

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