don't go buying hardware with nothing but non-free firmware drivers.
In the real world, there are people who need to run... machines available to them, or in the marketplace.
You may be surprised to learn about what happens in the real world, to judge by your pushing these two contradictory arguments.
In the real world, I have a couple laptops with internal wifi adapters that wouldn't work without non-free firmware/drivers. Because they were "machines available to" me. But to assume that that means "nothing but non-free" is rather unimaginative. The machines work fine with no non-free anything because each has a $5 USB wifi stick from ebay that doesn't require anything non-free to run.
Unless someone tries to install Devuan 2.0 on them, in which case they will get packages installed from non-free even though there is no need for them and every reason not to and no one asked for them.
(Score: 3, Touché) by requerdanos on Monday June 11 2018, @11:51PM
You may be surprised to learn about what happens in the real world, to judge by your pushing these two contradictory arguments.
In the real world, I have a couple laptops with internal wifi adapters that wouldn't work without non-free firmware/drivers. Because they were "machines available to" me. But to assume that that means "nothing but non-free" is rather unimaginative. The machines work fine with no non-free anything because each has a $5 USB wifi stick from ebay that doesn't require anything non-free to run.
Unless someone tries to install Devuan 2.0 on them, in which case they will get packages installed from non-free even though there is no need for them and every reason not to and no one asked for them.