I really want to support GNU and FSF but they seem to be constantly fighting some 20 year stale war against a company that is in many ways way more open than Google, Facebook, and Apple.
I really want to support GNU and FSF but they seem to be constantly fighting some 20 year stale war against a company that is in many ways way more open than Google, Facebook, and Apple.
Either way it's kind of irrelevant. "He shot my dog!" "Not an issue, other people are shooting dogs all the time."
Other people being at fault does not absolve you of fault.
As for your question, it's better to attack a hypocrite that claimed to champion privacy when in reality they did just the opposite.
What bothers me is the dishonest implication that Microsoft is good for privacy, and that the anxiety they wish to arouse for Google shouldn't be placed back on Microsoft.
And, as far as I know, binary blobs for bootloader ate not made by Google