The website of Tails claims that Tails is free software. But recently
I've learned that it isn't
quite so. Apparently Tails uses the version of Linux that contains
proprietary binary blobs.
In my opinion that is quite weird considering that the kernel that
Debian GNU/Linux uses doesn't
contain binary blobs at all. Tails developers must have thought that
getting Tails to boot up
on as many kinds of hardware as possible is important. But I would argue
that security is more
important than that, because as you know since the source code of those
binary blobs is not
available nobody can really verify what they do. And Tails is a
distribution that claims it
focueses on security and privacy, not on hardware compatilibity. So I
would suggest that Tails
developers would do one of the following:
1. Get rid of the kernel that contains binary blobs and replace it with
a one that
doesn't contain them.
Or if this is asking too much
2. Make it clear that Tails indeed isn't completely made up of free
software on
your website.
