Comment by cogburnd02

> The FSF is too dogmatic.

I disagree. They have a moral value system, and they adhere to it. Just like (say) Roman Catholicism.

The FSF's point of view is that by providing repositories (which make installing a program a single command-line or a few GUI-clicks away) that's not functionally different from that being a part of the operating system. So providing repositories of nonfree software is functionally equivalent to including that software in the OS itself.

And to have software freedom, then all the software on a machine must respect the user's freedom; i.e. be free software.