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Not misleading. You can ship entirely free software and that's not enough.


If your "entirely free software" downloads or suggests non-free software, than it's not actually entirely free.


If they ship a complete and working OS that is free it should be considered free. This dogmatic all or nothing attitude is exactly why I ignore the FSF.


With your logic, I can create a small free software program, which automatically downloads some proprietary malware and you will call it all 'free as in freedom'.


No. I specifically used the keyword 'complete'


> complete and working OS

What is a "complete OS"? You always need to install some new packages.




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