I believe there's a lot of misunderstanding of what's freeSW, what's openSW, and what debian repos have been providing all along.

Debian has been providing a "non-free" repo for all versions they keep in their repo servers (experimental, unstable, testing, stable) since I can remember.

And to me it's important to make a difference of what's freeSW vs. what's not freeSW, and I prefer to use freeSW, unless I'm forced to use something it's not freeSW and there's no way to overcome that.

This is one of the things openSW movements (remember, IBM, MS, Google, and several other corps all are part of, or contribute to openSW fundations, but never had supported the idea of freeSW) have influenced to, and convinced most into. Now the value of freeSW means almost nothing, and most are just happy with openSW. I can't judge anyone, but just say, this is really sad. And once again I see people treating those defending principles as 2nd class citizens, :(