About 50% of the masses can be successfully transitioned to GNU/Linux
distributions which include some non-free software. Mainly this is because of
web critical components like Adobe Flash. If we abandon the users who are
willing to take a leap of faith and try GNU/Linux then they will never end up
on a completely free system. At the same time if we try and move users to
Trisquel before Trisquel is ready for prime time we risk losing them forever.
Our goal is to help users off non-free software. Not to turn them away from
it. I'd like to point out that nobody here is on a completely free system.
The OS may be free- but your system is not. There are non-free pieces hidden
within. For instance there is the BIOS and other non-free microcode.
This is NOT a justification. Please consider it bad behavior on our part. You
shouldn't recommend, “default to”, etc.
I highly recommend people link to the following URL as we have cleaned this
site up:
http://libre.thinkpenguin.com/
It does not include pointers to non-free programs, distributions which
include non-free software, etc.
