It’s really only to make some particular bits of hardware work. The rest of the operating system works, and sometimes those devices are reverse-engineered to produce open-source drivers so the blobs aren’t needed. As someone who loves open source, it’s frustrating, but some is better than none.
So basically closed source stuff added on to open source projects. Doesn’t that kinda defeat the point of open-source?
It’s really only to make some particular bits of hardware work. The rest of the operating system works, and sometimes those devices are reverse-engineered to produce open-source drivers so the blobs aren’t needed. As someone who loves open source, it’s frustrating, but some is better than none.