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Original Raspberry Pi needs user to provide non-free firmware blobs on SD card to even boot the CPU. That's pretty non-free in any meaning I can imagine.

It seems like it's still the case with Raspberry Pi 2.



The only difference between that an a PC is that the PC stores the firmware blob in a ROM chip while the Pi stores it on the SD card. Both require it to boot.




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