Hey Dave,
I wasn't trying to call you out or anything. As to your question you are
providing a false dichotomy. S/he has more than the two choices of not use
Trisquel or use a driver that "may not pass the purity test".
I noticed that the OP posted another thread here
(https://trisquel.info/en/forum/unable-connect-my-wireless-network) they said
in that post that they would be ok getting another wireless card that would
work with free software. That in fact is the ideal solution (or reverse
engineering the non-free drivers and releasing free ones).
But yes we love it when people use Trisquel. However at the same time we
can't make compromises and help people install non-free software for a few
reasons. Firstly it would violate the guidelines for a free distro and we
would lose our FSF endorsement. Secondly, the compromises are potentially
never ending. Examples include: I need photoshop for school, My printer
requires a non-free driver, I can't watch hulu without flash.
As far as the BIOS thing goes I also unfortunately have a non-free BIOS. I
pulled this computer out of a dumpster so I didn't have a choice on the BIOS.
However the BIOS and the O/S are different. We are fighting for a free OS
and people are also fighting for a
[https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/free-bios.html free bios] but Trisquel itself
is concerned with just the OS side of things.
