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"100% Free" GNU Boot Discovers Again They Have Been Shipping Non-Free Code
GNU Boot is a '100% free software project aimed at replacing the non-free boot software' and is a downstream of Coreboot, GRUB, and SeaBIOS
GNU Boot discovered an issue with non-free code affecting not only them but also some of the Linux distributions that pride themselves on being fully free software / 100% open-source. This latest snafu they say is "more problematic" than their prior non-free code discover due to impacting the free software Linux distributions too. So from a user perspective, not as worrisome unless being a free software purist as ultimately it amounts to bundled test data.
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