Why would it be bad to have more free software distros?
Why would it be benefitial to split Trisquel into two forks? I don't get it. If Trisquel was based on Debian, then it wouldn't be based on Ubuntu. I don't see the number of Free Libre distributions augmented that way.
Why don't you ust use Debian. It's practically free libre, no blobs in the kernel as far as I know.
Previous releases of Debian included nonfree blobs with Linux, the kernel. With the release of Debian 6.0 (“squeeze”) in February 2011, these blobs have been moved out of the main distribution to separate packages in the nonfree repository. However, the problem partly remains: the installer in some cases recommends these nonfree firmware files for the peripherals on the machine.
https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html
