If we're talking about drivers, the user won't usually know they're asking
for firmware files, unless she's knowledgeable enough to check dmesg. OTOH
I think it's bad to assume the firmware is always going to be non-free. It
could be liberated, or others could write a replacement, and then not having
the ability to load the free version becomes a technical inconvenience.
When someone frees a firmware package, we can add the driver we
previously removed. I don't think that firmware blobs will be freed 5
times a day thus and overload us ;-{.
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