The article isn't pushing for a fork due to the TM policy because it explicitly calls out the TM policy as being less bad than proprietary software bits (I have to guess the author discounts its impact on freedom 2, they have been around far too long for nobody to have made the argument to them). Or so I would guess. In any case I wasn't saying they did, I was saying that if one buys the rest of their argument and agrees the TM policy is unacceptable, forking FirefoxOS is the logical next step.

I'm still looking for a brief, accurate characterization of what Replicant and free distros, or a specific free distro, does that could replace quoted text. AFAICT there isn't really one in the obvious places, eg http://www.replicant.us/about.php and https://trisquel.info/en or https://trisquel.info/en/faq

I think it'd be great if Trisquel called out ways takes into account ethical concerns about software beyond freedom, instead of the super generic "for home users, small enterprises and educational centers." !