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I also think there are great projects under the FSF. My issue is the politics and Linux-libre because it's harmful.
I don't think CPU microcode will be open source but the good thing is that RISC-V and ARM don't need microcode so that could be avoided entirely in the future.
Right now (and for a while from now) we have to always settle, the FSF only never settle because they settled when writing their nonsensical guidelines. Closest you can get to full open source device is the MNT reform laptop. Technically you can even have an Open Source CPU on it but everything is at the cost of usability and yet it's still not perfect. But nothing is perfect imo, that's why imo you can never settle.