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7/12/2025, 10:12:02 AM
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A start is to call the OS for its name: GNU. Calling it 'Linux' gives more power to The Linux Foundation and the open source movement than it should have.
As I already said, the point of calling it 'Linux' and talking about open source instead of Free Software was to dilute the influence of the FSF and the importance of user freedom and instead focus on the source code being available publicly which was never the point of Free Software and serves to benefit corporations directly rather than users.
The stupid argument they used for 30+ years was that since GNU doesn't have a kernel it can't be an operating system, yet:
>Linux is not a full operating system either so calling it as such makes no sense
>Android and ChromeOS don't have a kernel either yet nobody pushes for calling them 'Android/Linux', 'ChromeOS/Linux' or even simply 'Linux'; they call it for the OS name because they're owned by a corporation
>the FSF maintains its own fork: Linux-libre so they do have a kernel after all
They play with definitions and words to influence the way people think about things. It's the same thing they do when they define gender as 'a spectrum' and change the definition of 'woman.'
The next thing is to push for the GPL and user freedom which is the real and only purpose any of us are here anyway. The other magic trick they pulled was convincing the community that user freedom wasn't important, that the only important thing was price and convenience.
The thing is, we were all pulled into GNU by the Freedoms it provides. If we were looking for convinence and low price we would all be using Windows and freeware.
The third thing is to push back by advocating for all of this. They're too cozy with their identity politics bullshit so changing the tune is going to force their hand and they'll easily show their true colors.
>>105876106
>>105878004
A start is to call the OS for its name: GNU. Calling it 'Linux' gives more power to The Linux Foundation and the open source movement than it should have.
As I already said, the point of calling it 'Linux' and talking about open source instead of Free Software was to dilute the influence of the FSF and the importance of user freedom and instead focus on the source code being available publicly which was never the point of Free Software and serves to benefit corporations directly rather than users.
The stupid argument they used for 30+ years was that since GNU doesn't have a kernel it can't be an operating system, yet:
>Linux is not a full operating system either so calling it as such makes no sense
>Android and ChromeOS don't have a kernel either yet nobody pushes for calling them 'Android/Linux', 'ChromeOS/Linux' or even simply 'Linux'; they call it for the OS name because they're owned by a corporation
>the FSF maintains its own fork: Linux-libre so they do have a kernel after all
They play with definitions and words to influence the way people think about things. It's the same thing they do when they define gender as 'a spectrum' and change the definition of 'woman.'
The next thing is to push for the GPL and user freedom which is the real and only purpose any of us are here anyway. The other magic trick they pulled was convincing the community that user freedom wasn't important, that the only important thing was price and convenience.
The thing is, we were all pulled into GNU by the Freedoms it provides. If we were looking for convinence and low price we would all be using Windows and freeware.
The third thing is to push back by advocating for all of this. They're too cozy with their identity politics bullshit so changing the tune is going to force their hand and they'll easily show their true colors.
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