How not to recognize free hardware

The tragic part about this is that in their fervor to label only products which comply strictly with all non-technical requirements, such as packaging and marketing, they set such a high barrier to marking that few manufacturers will bother, which leaves relatively average Free Software supporters unable to distinguish completely closed hardware from the hardware that actually supports the technical things that the FSF is trying to require.

The result is that I'll be buying more closed hardware than if they had a less hard-lined stance, or permitted different levels of compliance (with different labels).