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Is there actually any Linux distro that isn't governed by retards that want to keep breaking things?

Yeah, we will just drop this very popular package in a month, because we are autistic about dropping Qt5 and are removing packages using it.
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@phnt GNU Linux-libre

@Suiseiseki
>GNUslop Linux-Libre
>not governed by retards
You clearly didn't read my post

@phnt @Suiseiseki if you think gnu is slop, then you shouldn't have ever so much as considered a gnu - hurd + linux distribution viable in the first place, since they all use a slop shell, a slop libc implementation, slop core utilities, a slop c compiler, a slop build system, and dozens upon dozens, if not hundreds, of other slop programs all under a slop license.

@HatkeshiatorTND @Suiseiseki Correct, that's why I'm never using more of that slop than absolutely necessary. The perfect Linux system is one without GNU.

@phnt @Suiseiseki that can't exist, because linux itself is distributed under the gnu general public license (version 2.0-only)

@HatkeshiatorTND @phnt *Partially distributed.

I can envision a future where Linux is 100% proprietary software - we're already 51% there.

Whats the difference? do you not believe in a one drop rule?

@monkyyy @HatkeshiatorTND @phnt One drop of proprietary software is easy to excise - you just delete it and write the 5 line free software replacement and the problem is solved permanently.

Although there is a serious problem when >50% of the program is proprietary software.

Its nice your getting more moderate

@monkyyy @phnt @Suiseiseki "you hate eating arsenic? with a passion, you say? would you even say that about a bottle of arsenic that comes with food?"
"yes, but such is simple to ignore or throw in the bin."
"well, at least you're moderate."
???

"the terrorist is going around poising food"
"the bottle is empty, therefore its safe-ish"
"what do you mean? surely we shouldn't eat any food even if its only one drop of poison"
"just eat around where the poison was :)"

@monkyyy @phnt @Suiseiseki poison wasn't the most literal analogy. think of it like a lego tower, but some bricks contain significant doses of caesium or plutonium or similar and will cause cancer after some exposure. if only two bricks are this way, you can simply discqrd them and replace them with normal bricks. compare that to if 51% of the bricks are proprietary cancer causing bricks, where the problem is much bleaker.

I find the gnu/mit debate completely absurd, I just publish all code without a drop of legalese and wouldnt listen if I wanted to mix two libs with different licences I just would, whatever. I dont have a horse in the race, I just like the vitalism of anger and open extremism.

@monkyyy @phnt @Suiseiseki https://choosealicense.com/no-permission/