Even without going full-Stallman, a package following GNU FSDG (their guidelines about making recommendations and things) has value to someone who just cares ab

Even without going full-Stallman, a package following GNU FSDG (their guidelines about making recommendations and things) has value to someone who just cares about free software, but still uses some nonfree software. It's nice to know that while you can deliberately install nonfree software, doing a simple package or plugin search will only show free software. On the recommended plugins screen, no worrying "looks kinda neat, but I need to check if it's free"; just make the assumption that it is. No "oh, I hit the 'just make it work' button, and it picked the non-free option. The system picks between Gnash and Lightspark. If your thing doesn't work in those, and you actually do need Adobe, then you can consciously install it.