Like most folks here, I have mixed feelings about this. The dichotomy of "it's about time" versus "how tragic that it came to this" seems to be common, and I c

Like most folks here, I have mixed feelings about this. The dichotomy of "it's about time" versus "how tragic that it came to this" seems to be common, and I can get on board with that. Having said that, I don't think that having firmware blobs in the installer should be Debian's hill to die on, and I'm glad they decided to acquiesce to practical necessity. Between wireless NICs and graphics devices, it's just too blasted difficult these days to install a FOSS operating system without binary blobs - good, bad, or ugly, it is what it is, and I respect their ability to recognize when something simply cannot be changed [at this time]. Keep picking your battles, Debian crew - keep fighting the good fight.