What? Of course there are. That is not what I meant. If you choose to use a full Free Software stack, you'll have to face some inconveniences: fewer hardware choices, different or unavailable software and codecs, etc.

Easy examples: if you choose to run a completely free system most of the videos on the web today are unavailable to you (even counting the few YouTube converted to WebM), as are essentially all games on any platform. Also, you cannot have a smartphone (I think even OpenMoko needs a binary blob). These are inconveniences.

RMS thinks freedom has higher value than having the ability to choose whatever hardware you want, so he picked the only laptop available with free firmware.