"And mind telling me how did Debian hurt the free software world?"

1. At boot, Debian displays a message that my network card driver is missing proprietary firmware. Essentially, Debian is ADVERTISING proprietary firmware for my network card. What is so ridiculous about this is my network card works PERFECTLY with the free driver, so the proprietary driver Debian nags me about is completely unnecessary.

2. Iceweasel's menu entry for Tools>Add-ons takes you to the mozilla addons website, which contains free and closed addons for the browser. I do not wish to use closed addons in my browser. When using Debian, I have to read licenses for whichever addon I wish to install, in order to know whether it is a free addon or not. I do not wish to read licenses. I wish to see a list of free addons that I may install.

3. Debian does not contain the Parabola patches for KDE, which remove all references to non-free software like built-in Palm Pilot support or references to closed software like Flash.

Those are only the ones I am personally familiar with. I am sure there are many more. All of the above are true, even on an install from the main repos only.

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