@shakil_tcs @debian >with regular software or only non-free firmware
There is no difference between proprietary peripheral software and "regular" proprietary software, as both are software and both take the users freedom just as hard.

The whole idea of calling such software "firmware" is to *confuse* the user into thinking it's something other than software and unfortunately such scheme is very successful.

>they simply allow the non-free firmware to be the default iso.
They have made the explicit choice to include many proprietary programs in the installer that take the users freedom, meaning the installer is proprietary software and if that wasn't bad enough, they don't offer a free installer *at all*, rather than nonfree "just being the default".