On Dec 21, 2013 1:02 AM, "Carl-Daniel Hailfinger" <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net> wrote:
> The big question is why someone doesn't want to have blobs in the system:
> 1. Freedom: The FSF/Stallman say that ROMs are hardware and thus the
> "software" aspect of free software does not apply, i.e. closed source
> ROMs are OK.

I *might* feel closed-source ROMs weren't too bad if they were genuinely ROMs and were well-studied/fuzzed and found benign.

Are there many genuine ROMs (not, for instance, EEPROMS) in Chromebooks? If so, how well-studied & by whom?

Thanks,

Sam