The FSF's Free Software Awards

But that still doesn't address the fundamental flaw RYF as it exists today, namely the absurd claim that having replaceable non-free firmware is somehow "less respectful of your freedom" than non-replaceable non-free firmware. (where "replaceable" actually means "the end-user has no way of doing so", not "there is no simple-ish technical means to do so")

(It also flies completely in the face of the reality of "best practice" hardware design of the last couple of decades -- field-upgradability of firmware is usually a hard requirement, often due to legal mandates)

> I was told, however, quite firmly, that the FSF was sufficiently influential that vendors would Free their firmware just to get RYF certification, and that adding layers of certification wouldn't encourage more freeing of firmware. It's now 10 years later - how many vendors have done that?

What's sad is that even ten years ago, it should have been clear to them that they did *not* have sufficient influence. After all, 10 years ago was still 5 years after the GPLv3 landed, and the wholesale abandonment/replacement of GNU software (and other than the Linux kernel, copyleft in general) was well under way at that point in time.