This is from the perspective of a loyal debian user (since 1996 or so)... I'm opposed to this in a big way. I use debian for its ease-of-use; the philosophical purity is a secondary consideration. Free software is very important, but I think that putting non-free stuff in the non-free package is sufficient to make its status clear. Debian cannot afford to get rid of these packages until they are replaced with free ones that work just as well. Mozilla works nowhere nearly as well as netscape, and I'm not switching until it gets a lot better. So if you take away from users things that they depend on, I think it would cost Debian a lot of mindshare. I can't see any positive purpose that it serves other than a really pedantic childish variety of bragging rights.
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