PJ's comment when she posted this story in newspicks

You can choose not to at install time, or easily remove non-free bits after installation. Both work equally fine for me. Some others claim even offering non-free binaries like Debian contrib/non-free is against FOSS... to me the defining thing is whether the non-free bits are properly separated from the free bits. That's what caused me to switch from SUSE to Ubuntu in the first place, in 2004 (before SUSE became openSUSE and it started paying a bit more attention to these things).