Eric has never been the developer of a distribution, so there will be things he doesn't understand. I am all for having as many users as possible. I understand the problem of proprietary firmware and hope that this is not a significant blocker for most people, especially since most distribution installers do provide a way to download it (and we should offer the choice even if we don't approve). This will not help people with a network interface that requires proprietary firmware to run.
But IMO the main problems with developing a large user community are ease of use and impedance mismatch between the developers and users. Many Debian developers would not have been the best people to communicate with a naive user, and Devuan does further distill that characteristic. IMO this is self-defeating for Free Software. Thanks Bruce
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