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Steve McIntyre argues that
Debian needs to rethink its approach to non-free firmware.

Today, a user with a new laptop from most vendors will struggle to
use it at all with our firmware-free Debian installation
media. Modern laptops normally don’t come with wired ethernet
now. There won’t be any usable graphics on the laptop’s screen. A
visually-impaired user won’t get any audio prompts. These
experiences are not acceptable, by any measure.