I think it's actually important to understand how much the computer manufacturers don't really appear to want the free state to become the default. (Not from a

I think it's actually important to understand how much the computer manufacturers don't really appear to want the free state to become the default. (Not from a "look at these jerks" perspective, but from a benchmarking perspective.) The project is explicitly about free software, so you should not be able to walk in the door and casually/accidentally walk out with non-free software. But more importantly, it should be a fairly straightforward process to identify "how many non-free sources did I need to incorporate in order to make my piece of 2004 hardware boot and run acceptably?" vs "how many ... in 2019?" One of the ideals of the Debian distro is also reproducibility, for reasons I won't go into since it's not particularly relevant, but for anyone who hasn't seen it before already: https://isdebianreproducibleyet.com/ https://isdebianreproducibleyet.com/ The non-free parts will (potentially, depending on what kind of non-free I guess...) always keep this number under 100% I love the Debian that Gotham Needs, I've never seen this, and the big red asterisk on "should" handles this concern neatly ;)