@Suiseiseki The GNU Emacs thing is often because Stallman and GNU/FSF folks love claiming that RMS invented or wrote Emacs, this isn't a copyright thing, this is about having correct history without trying to erase previous records.

>I cannot fathom why you would compare the proprietary losetel to 100% free software that's compiled against the finest GNU libraries that happens to be compiled for AMD64 - after all, take a guess how much proprietary software my dual 6282 SE's in my KGPE-D16 runs?

The comparison I would do is on vendor locking and effectively the EEE on Unix that GNU tried to do where now you end up with a bunch of crapware, GNU being pretty damn far from being the only libre OS vendor out there.
(And I'd argue you likely have blobs on your machine, GNU is crap at consistency except when it comes to politics)