Hector Martin

"100% of PureOS is free software (required blobs not considered part of PureOS)" "100% of this burger is gluten-free (burger definition excludes the buns)" "100% of this car is electric (combustion engine required to drive hybrid powertrain is a separate purchase)"

"100% of PureOS is free software (required blobs not considered part of PureOS)" It's not "considered", it's a very clear and tangible boundary! Better analogy would be "this tofuburger is vegan, but the french fries next to it were fried on animal fats".

You can eat the tofuburger and not the fries. You can't run PureOS on your device without the blobs. Come on you can do better with your analogies.

The analogy is good enough already. You can simply take PureOS and run it on a blobless device and it'll be fully blob-free as a whole. There's no such blobless mobile device in existence yet, but that may change in the future.

Ah, so it's about hypothetically eating tofuburger, but you can't eat it now. Gotcha. Seriously...

Oh c'mon. The OS doesn't contain any blobs, so you know that if something is part of the OS, it is free - period. It is a valuable assumption to be able to make. In-hardware blobs aren't part of the OS, so it's clear to the user what's free and what's not.

And well, personally I do share your opinion that RYF rules can encourage things that aren't exactly helpful and allows for harmful things to pass swept under the carpet. There are problems with it and I don't argue with that - but L5's implementation of those rules isn't one.

In fact you can likely easily find my arguments against RYF I was making in the past over the Web, very similar to yours. Initially Purism's announcement about RYF didn't make me very happy - but then I learned what's actually being done there and I'm perfectly fine with it now.