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That's the beautiful thing - it doesn't matter.
some people would prefer to only use FOSS software and hardware, though
Good luck with that. What switch are you going to run? What access point what gateway for your ISP.
pretty much any open source hardware can do all of those things... not sure what you're trying to say
Yeah but to the degree that they need the firmware running on each chip in the device to be a FOSS chip firmware?