BIOS and ME are only two of the many proprietary things on a computer. If your hardware works without a binary blob, that only means that same blob is stored in a flash chip on the pcb of the hardware. So in the freedom-scale, it doesn’t matter whether the blob is pushed by the kernel or pulled from a flash chip - the hardware executes a proprietary firmware in any case.
BIOS and ME are only two of the many proprietary things on a computer. If your hardware works without a binary blob, that only means that same blob is stored in a flash chip on the pcb of the hardware. So in the freedom-scale, it doesn’t matter whether the blob is pushed by the kernel or pulled from a flash chip - the hardware executes a proprietary firmware in any case.