> Proprietary bootloader technology that Broadcom maintains is secret stopped the community hacking together USB boot, keeping us tied to bloody MicroSD cards and all the palava which is adherent to that.

I get that you don't like this stuff you're complaining about. If you sincerely think this is any worse than the situation with "regular PCs," go look for the disk that came with your PC with the source code for your BIOS ROM.

(This is an aggravating one, since there are plenty of PCs in the world that could use a microcode patch via the BIOS right now)

> Proprietary GFX hardware which needs paid for codes to use (see comment earlier about Malaysia).

More open source code is available for more GPU functionality on the Pi than is available for the Nvidia graphics cards I've used for decades. That's not saying much, given how bad Nvidia is about this stuff, and how anemic the Pi GPU really is, but I'm not the one making these crazy comparisons.

It's like this with every aspect of this comparison. You need to be unaware of anything about how PCs are put together to buy it for a minute. PCs are full of proprietary stuff.