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   翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 18:52:55 JST 翠星石

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   @yomiel @dick @RustyCrab "I use Linux as my operating system", I state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. He swivels around in his desk chair with a GNUish gleam in his eyes, ready to GNUsplain with extreme precision. "Actually, he says with a grin, Linux is only a kernel, a proprietary one at that." he took a powerful breath into his thick GNU/Lungs and continued; "Most likely you use GNU slash Linux!' I don't miss a beat and reply with a proprietary smirk, "I use Alpine, a distro that doesn't include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. it's Linux, but it's not GNU/Linux".
   
   The smile quickly enhances on the man's face. His body begin emanating a holy GNU/Glow as he prepared for yet another GNU/Exorcism. Being possessed by a proprietary daemon, I soon began foaming at the mouth, dropped to the floor and started to writhe and scream. He calmly continued with his interjection; "Alpine is a BusyBox/Linux distro. BusyBox is a inferior clone of GNU under a GNU license. Even though Alpine's developers attempt to not include GNU and make an utter garbage distro, they still use GCC and many GNU libraries to compile it - so it does indeed include and require GNU code (like all nontrivial free software), plus the first thing most Alpine users do is install the GNU software that's missing (although most of them don't even register that they're installing GNU software). Furthermore, GNU coreutils is only one GNU package out of 388." The daemon replied; "If windows was compiled with GCC, Would that make it GNU?" and demonically interrupted before he could respond with; "and work is being made on the kernel to make it more Compiler-agnostic. Even you were correct, you wont be for long."
   
   He signed and continued; "Yes, that would make it; quote compiled with GNU unquote. Furthermore, there are indeed distributions of GNU for windows, which does make GNU/Windows if you install them - but those only exist to give the suckers a taste of freedom and you're better off installing the real thing (GNU/Linux-libre). It's a real shame that Linux puts any development work into ensuring that it can be compiled with compilers that aren't under a freedom-defending license, rather than using all the fine GNU extensions GCC makes available, but that's sadly to be expected from a proprietary kernel project - although Linux is indeed freedom respecting once exorcised to make GNU Linux-libre. I'm always correct despite the proprietary efforts to make me wrong." With a sickly wheeze, the last of the proprietary daemon was exorcised from my body. It lay on the floor, cold and limp - he interjected it to death with the good word of freedom.
   
   Now that I had been saved, I begged for forgiveness. He proclaimed; "Forgiveness is not required - all you need to do is repent. Repentance consists of installing a free distro on your computer to replace the proprietary Alpine. A list of free distros is available at; https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html";.