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Line 1: In computer science, a '''binary blob''' is a [[Binary file\|binary]] object for which no source code is available. In some operating system communities, such as [[Ubuntu (Linux distribution)\|Ubuntu]] and [[OpenBSD]], the term refers to partial or complete drivers provided by companies such as [[ATI Technologies\|ATI]] and [[NVIDIA]] to provide support for their [[hardware]]. Such blobs can be a point of conflict between [[open source software\|open source]] and [[free software]] advocates anand developers and regular users of the operating system, as binary blobs can provide convenient support for hardware at the cost of the ability to read and modify ~~the~~every ~~entire~~component of the operating system. {{soft-eng-stub}}

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