Linux is becoming easier to use every day. It's not acting like
a
fanatic to stick to some guiding principles. If Fedora only works with
hardware supported by open source as a consequence of these principles,
it's a reasonable tradeoff.
I applaud Fedora's not shipping non FOSS
software. That being said
there are myriad ways that one can get firmware, closed source drivers
etc. for non natively supported (or poorly supported) hardware to work
with Fedora (but) those currently can't *ship* with the distro.
IMHO the tradeoff is very reasonable indeed and deviating from the
current policy would be a slippery slope scenario.
--
Bests,
Jon