This kind of post is counter-productive. If someone is starting to use more free software, it's very discouraging when people start getting nitpicky about stuf

This kind of post is counter-productive. If someone is starting to use more free software, it's very discouraging when people start getting nitpicky about stuff like binary blobs. Yes, a distro without that stuff is technically more free (and safer from spying governments), but let people come one step at a time. By switching to a GNU/Linux distro, steveklabnik is much better off than he was.