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      5 months ago

      Unironically the importance of being GNU/Linux instead of just Linux.

      So Alpine with its musl libc is bad? How about embedded distributions with Busybox instead of GNU userland?

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        Alright, you got me. I mainly care about the GPL license and the ability to modify your own devices as you like. But that doesn’t make as good of a one liner.

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          the ability to modify your own devices as you like

          GPLv2 does not mandate that, though. That was the main reason why GPLv3 was written.

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        Yes, permissive licensing instead of copyleft is bad. Things like Alpine and Busybox exist mostly to allow corporations to exploit Linux without giving back to the community, build user-hostile Tivoized devices, etc.

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          user-hostile Tivoized devices

          GPLv2 does the same. Linus Torvalds explicitly said he’s fine with that and disapproves the GPLv3 for this very reason.

          I guess you use an OS with a GPLv3 kernel then? Hurd?