Since nearly everybody uses devices that require firmware blobs, the policy has a huge negative impact, it should have a corresponding benefit to motivate its e

Since nearly everybody uses devices that require firmware blobs, the policy has a huge negative impact, it should have a corresponding benefit to motivate its existence. But what can possibly make up repelling all but the hardiest users, who most likely will have to work around it by installing firmware blobs anyway? There are plenty of alternatives that just work. Sure, the users that can run without blobs deserve a reward, so show them a congratulatory message on boot or something. There is precedent for not taking a hard line. Nearly all GNU software works on Windows, for entirely pragmatic reasons.