I'm working on the full RMS. The only obstacle so far is nivida cards, but nouveau is improving at every release.
The OP was calling for distributed social interactions using open and standardised peer protocols/applications. All for that. Not clear that this precludes proprietary implementations.
even if nouveau is finished, there is still software running on the card that you don't, and won't, have the source code to. same with your BIOS. stallman uses a laptop where all of the software in the BIOS is open source, as well as firmware software in the processor ... good luck with those unknown-format microcode blobs for Intel CPUs...
Absolutely, if and when the Lemote people get marketing sorted in the UK, and when I retire and need not use large monitors/large storage/media codecs, moving off binary blobs is the goal.
Until then, crusts must be earned. Trivia of the week: blackberry handsets support .ogg files. Wonderful.
The OP was calling for distributed social interactions using open and standardised peer protocols/applications. All for that. Not clear that this precludes proprietary implementations.