>By far most open source software, when built without changes, will produce a fully working binary that does not grab and run binary blobs at runtime. All that software would meet my criteria for acceptance.
Huh? We're not talking about whether the main part of firefox is open source. We're talking about whether the H264 plugin is open source.
Look at firefox as your apt-get and the H264 plugin as something that you can either download a compiled binary of or compile yourself.
Is the only objection that it does it at 'runtime'? If you consider first boot part of the install process then that problem solves itself.
Huh? We're not talking about whether the main part of firefox is open source. We're talking about whether the H264 plugin is open source.
Look at firefox as your apt-get and the H264 plugin as something that you can either download a compiled binary of or compile yourself.
Is the only objection that it does it at 'runtime'? If you consider first boot part of the install process then that problem solves itself.
I really don't understand what the problem is.