In a perfect world there would only be open firmware for all devices. We don't live in such a perfect world, and even Linux users might have e.g. a Logitech uni

In a perfect world there would only be open firmware for all devices. We don't live in such a perfect world, and even Linux users might have e.g. a Logitech unifying receiver. And nobody should disallow them to use one with Linux. Modern Linux comes with a huge set of firmware for e.g. DVB-T sticks or WiFi adapters. Vendors should be allowed to distribute Linux compatible firmware for their products. Vendors need a reasonable way to update the firmware, if there are e.g. severe security bugs. Users should have a reasonable way of getting these updates, without having to constantly monitor all pages for all their devices (and switching over to WIN just to update the via a "Updater Tool v4.732.x"). This is a good thing. It makes peoples' devices more secure. The integration with Gnome is seamless and updating usually simple (it is quite a new thing though, and some specific things can always go wrong). Users are free to chose with which vendors they do business and whom to trust.