Re: [Trisquel-users] So is this true about AMD on Trisquel?

[onpon4]

That's just what not valuing freedom leads to. You've got people thinking  
it's fine because of where the proprietary firmware is being run, and it  
doesn't help that the main distribution of the kernel Linux includes these  
proprietary blobs. For example, one of the people responsible for the  
OpenPandora once justified proprietary firmware as "more open" than  
proprietary drivers because you can get the firmware to work with any OS. If  
all you value is "openness", this makes sense. If you value freedom, a  
proprietary firmware requirement is no better than a proprietary driver  
requirement.

Indeed, using an old Nvidia card (that works with Nouveau) is the best  
choice. I don't think there's even an active reverse-engineering effort for  
Radeon cards, so you can expect them to be essentially pieces of junk  
forever.