[Image description: A fox-woman wearing a dress the color of the Debian logo is being pulled by the sleeves on one side by a gnu man and on the other side bu a penguin. She has an annoyed expression. The gnu man says: “Debian, why do you offer a non-free firmware repo? You’re so close to being one of the few fully free distros… Don’t you believe in free software?”
The penguin says: “Why isn’t the necessary firmware installed by default ? It’s such a pain when you install and it can’t connect to network… You’re so close to being practical, Debian !” ]
I like this meme. it captures my thoughts about it as well. on the one hand, I don’t want non free firmware blob in my machine(which I don’t have :)), and on the other, it took me hours to get the right firmware on a relative’s laptop.
I personally would’ve liked a separate media with nonfree firmware blobs, but the voting on the matter rejected that idea.