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Yeah the "free operating system" stuff is wrong af. The guy clearly doesn't understand what free software means.
What do the F and L stand for in FLOSS?
"Free" and "libre". But this has only ever referred to the software itself, not to the hardware needed to use it.
That should be obvious, since otherwise almost no OSS would be FLOSS. After all, you have to buy a PC or another device to run it