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Got it. I agree that their drivers are (were?) of exemplary bad quality
But I don't think that it is realistically possible to drop all the proprietary firmware blobs, and if it's not maybe it's better to not actively sabotage something to 'avoid those being feasible'?
Firmware don't link to the kernel tho, and the kernel functions aren't stable so a firmware today would stop working tomorrow because a function was refactored(and all the code in the kernel that depend on that function) for performance or security, and the binary can't be refactored so it become useless