Comment 7 for bug 77311

I recently posted a comment related to this topic on Bug #1 ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1/comments/382 ), and received a surprising response from Mark Shuttleworth.

I'd like to add to the discussion of this bug that care should be taken to show how well does every given computer model support 100% free drivers without proprietary binary blobs and hardware. This is important, given Mark's recent announcement about the upcoming radical free edition of Gutsy Gibbon. Inspired by this, and by FSF's calls for "free-as-in-freedom hardware" i tried for the last few days to buy a laptop which would have only perfectly free components, but couldn't find one. Even Mark admits that such a laptop probably does not exist (yet).

Currently two famous vendors of laptops with pre-installed Ubuntu - Dell and system76 - both include hardware, which is either outright restricted or free, but technically crippled.

If i can't find a laptop that is 100% free, i would still prefer to buy one that is 90% free rather than 50% and i would consider paying more for one.