That's not completely true. Debian does allow what they call "non-free" software, with limitations (see [1]). In particular, searching for Debian packages wit

That's not completely true. Debian does allow what they call "non-free" software, with limitations (see [1]). In particular, searching for Debian packages with "firmware" in the name[2] will show alot of non-free. This does cause consternation in at least some free-software groups[3]. [1]: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#the-non-free-archive-area https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#the... [2]: https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=all&arch=any&searchon=names&keywords=firmware https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=all&arch=any&search... [3]: https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.en.html https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.en.html