GNU/Linux distros have a long, sordid history with non-free software, but from what I've seen it's largely looking up. I first started flirting with GNU/Linux in late 1990's, when major distros not only shipped with the then-non-free mpg123 (with the additional problem of mp3's being patented in the US) and Qt, but with Netscape Navigator!

In all seriousness, why do other distros ship the blobs when they violate Linux's own license (as Torvalds has said himself)?

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