There's no strawman, the author simply misuses some terms.
To put it simply, the OP advocates that open source should be more like BSD and less like Debian. Including NVIDIA drivers in your distribution is in a sense a
matter of "adhering to standards" and also something many OSS developers feel strongly against. The author argues that more is accomplished by giving users what they want, even when that means you have to work with and include propriatary software.
I'm not familiar with the author though, so I may be giving him too much credit.
To put it simply, the OP advocates that open source should be more like BSD and less like Debian. Including NVIDIA drivers in your distribution is in a sense a matter of "adhering to standards" and also something many OSS developers feel strongly against. The author argues that more is accomplished by giving users what they want, even when that means you have to work with and include propriatary software.
I'm not familiar with the author though, so I may be giving him too much credit.